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2005 Awards -- The Michigan Association of Broadcasters awarded several Broadcast Excellence Awards for the Arts & Humanities Radio Project, including: Best Mini-Documentary for "Touring Michigan," Best Feature/Use of Medium Two for "Hill Auditorium's New Look," and Best News Special Two-Radio Merit for "Brown vs. Board of Education."

2004 Awards -- The Michigan Association of Broadcasters awarded several Broadcast Excellence Awards for the Arts & Humanities Radio Project. This included:

• Best Mini-Documentary/Series for "Arab Americans: Democracy in a New Land;" "The Influence of Immigrants;" "The Next Generation: Democracy on Campus;" and, "Small Stuff Democracy."
• Best Feature/Use of Medium for "Lighthouse Reflections: What They Mean to Us."
• Best Feature Story: "Blowing Color and Light."
• Best Natural Sound: "Lighthouse Reflections: What They Mean to Us."
• Best News Documentary (Honorable Mention): "Democracy in America."

2003 Awards -- Michigan Radio (WUOM-FM, WFUM-FM, & WVGR-FM) has been honored for reports produced as part of the Arts & Humanities Radio Project. Tracy Samilton's look at the side effects of horse drawn carriages on Mackinaw Island won one award from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters (MAB) and a second award from the Associated Press (AP) in the use of medium categories (link here to listen). A report on "Llama Trekking" in Michigan by Tamar Charney was also honored by the AP for its use of sound (link here to listen). Matt Shafer Powell's visit to a one room school house took an award in the AP's Feature Report category (link here to listen).

A special series of reports that aired one year after the September 11th tragedy received honorable mention in the AP's News Documentary category. This five part series included two radio diaries that were produced by the Arts & Humanities Radio Project in cooperation with the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program. Radio producer Tamar Charney had two teenage Arab American girls create a radio diary of their day to day life and the impact of September 11 on their lives (link here to listen).

And finally, Tamar Charney, the coordinator and lead reporter for the Arts & Humanities Radio Project was honored in the individual reporting category in the AP awards.

2002 Awards -- Michigan Radio (WUOM-FM, WFUM-FM, & WVGR-FM), the public radio station of the University of Michigan, has won six Michigan Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards for excellence in non-commercial radio. The awards, along with four honorable mentions, will be presented in Southfield on April 13th.

Michigan Radio has also been named Station of the Year for 2002 by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. The award, along with six others for individual reporting, was announced in Lansing on February 19, 2002. The MAB is a statewide organization representing commercial as well as public radio and television stations.

Two Arts & Humanities Radio Project reports by Tamar Charney received top honors from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters: Best News Documentary (for Tamar Charney's "Riot Diaries") and Best Feature Story (for Tamar Charney's "Jim Crow Museum"). Tamar Charney's "Riot Diaries" also received the AP Broadcasters Association Merit Award for Mini-Documentary/Series.

This is the 4th consecutive year that Michigan Radio has won a Best Radio Station award. In previous years, public and commercial stations were judged separately. This is the first year entries from both categories were judged together.

2001 Awards -- Michigan Radio WUOM/WFUM-FM/WVGR was named Station of the Year, first by the Public Radio Program Directors Association, then by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. Now, the Michigan Associated Press has named Michigan Radio the top Public Radio station in the state.

The Michigan Associated Press also named Michigan Radio's Wendy Nelson, who reports regularly for the Arts and Humanities Radio Project, and Arts and Humanities Radio Project Coordinator and reporter Tamar Charney as the top two Public Radio reporters. Michelle Corum of Interlochen Public Radio was honored with the best feature story award for "I am Opera," a story produced for the Arts and Humanities Radio Project.

The National Association of Community Broadcasters has honored Tamar Charney and Melissa Emery for the three-part series, "Behind the Art: A Diary of an Artist."