MU Sinclair School of Nursing

receives honors at the

2007 MarCom Award

November 12, 2007

COLUMBIA , Mo. – The Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri-Columbia were among the top recipients of this year's MarCom Awards competition. The School's Mizzou Nursing magazine received both a gold statuette in the Educational Institution magazine category and an honorable mention for magazine design. Its research publication, “A Taste for Life” also brought home a gold statuette in the Annual Report design competition.

MarCom Awards announced winners for the 2007 international awards competition that recognizes outstanding creative achievement by marketing and communication professionals this month. More than 5,000 entries worldwide were entered in this year's competition.

MarCom entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers. The competition has grown to perhaps the largest of its kind in the world. A look at the winners shows a range in size from individual communicators to media conglomerates and Fortune 50 companies. The competition is so well respected in the industry that national public relations organizations, local ad clubs, and local business communicator chapters are entrants.

The MarCom Awards are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The international organization consists of several thousand creative professionals. The Association oversees awards and recognition programs, provides judges and sets standards for excellence.

Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.

Winners were selected from more than 200 categories in seven forms of media and communication efforts – marketing, publications, marketing/promotion, public service/pro bono, creativity and electronic/interactive. About 18 percent of the entries won the Gold Award, which is presented to those entries judged to exceed the high standards of the industry norm. Honorable mention certificates were granted to 10 percent of the entries that met the expectations of the judges.

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