E&S Polishes the Silver

For the second consecutive year, E&S has won a silver medal in the Research Magazine category in CASE’s annual Circle of Excellence competition. CASE, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, is the world’s largest nonprofit education association in terms of institutional membership, including more than 3,200 colleges, universities, and independent elementary and secondary schools in 55 countries around the world. The Circle of Excellence judges some 40 categories of alumni relations, institute advancement, public and media relations, and student recruitment pieces in print and electronic forms. Not all medals are awarded in all categories—in fact, last year no research-magazine gold was given out, and E&S shared the silver with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Oceanus. (This year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Endeavors took the gold.)

Averse as we are to tooting our own horn, we’d like to share some of the judges’ comments from 2005 with you. “The best entrants, not surprisingly, keep their readers in the middle of their radar screens. They know their audiences, and they are slaves to them alone. They feature thoughtful writing, inventive story ideas, and display copy that works.” “Engineering and Science . . . excels at meeting its mission and serving its unique readership. . . . Their entry succeeds in meeting its stated goals with a compelling lineup of stories with depth. (Such depth was a critical distinction between both of these publications and all the rest.) The stories and writing were very good, . . . [the] topics were compelling and well executed.” The comments from this year’s competition will be posted starting in late September. —DS