Scholarships

Applications being accepted
for annual scholarships

MEET THE 2006 WINNERS The American Copy Editors Society awards several scholarships each year, including the $2,500 Aubespin Scholarship, named after Merv Aubespin, an early supporter of the organization. The Aubespin scholar will be the top applicant each year among all applicants for ACES scholarships. Students who are not chosen as an Aubespin scholar are automatically eligible for ACES' other scholarships, at  $1,000 each. All ACES scholarships are for potential professional copy editors. The scholarships are open to students who will be juniors, seniors or graduate students in the fall, and graduating students who will take full-time copy editing jobs or internships. The postmark deadline for the next available scholarships is Nov. 15, 2008. Applications are evaluated by a panel of five people with copy desk experience. The 2007 scholarship winners will be announced in early 2008. For a 2008 scholarship application form (pdf), click here

The annual Aubespin Scholarship is named after ACES'  "godfather," Merv Aubespin. The $2,500 scholarship was announced April 27, 2002,during the ACES conference in Louisville, Ky. Aubespin provided the impetus behind ACES, as the chairman of the Human Resources Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in the mid-1990s. Aubespin, associate editor for development at the Courier-Journal in Louisville  before retiring, was also an early president of the National Association of Black Journalists. Read about Aubespin's 2002 speech at ACES .

Past scholarship winners

Breyer	Correa	Clark	Davenport	Dougher	Johnson
Hall	Hardy	Hauser	Karimi	Kanowitz	Meerkatz

Nunez	Pauley	Purschwitz	Schwing	Simms	Sorbara
Weimer	Werking	Zabkova	Zerba	Ziegler

2005 * Diego Sorbara, University of Missouri Caroline Hauser, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Erika Nunez, University of Texas at Arlington Kathryn Schwing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Amy Zerba, University of Texas at Austin 2004 * Nicole Werking, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Meredith Clark, Florida A&M University Jamie Dougher, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Stephanie Kanowitz, American University Laura Meerkatz, University of Nebraska 2003 * Dan Purschwitz,University of Missouri Elizabeth Breyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Carla Correa, University of Maryland Kelly Davenport, University of Missouri Colleen Pauley, University of Missouri

2002 * Alyda Hardy, University of Alabama Jennifer Johnson, Columbia University Amy Weimer, University of Northern Colorado Jana Zabkova, NewYork University 2001 Lauren Anzaldo, University of South Florida Nancy  Black, Southern Methodist University Faith  Karimi, Grambling State University Emily Zurich, SanJose State University 2000 Elana Simms, Virginia Commonwealth University Sara Ziegler, Iowa State University 1999 Daniel Gordon, University of Missouri Marissa Ferguson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Royce Hall, Seton Hall University Beth Kormanik, Northwestern University *Aubespin winner

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