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CMU Today Education and Human Services Building takes top honors The Construction Association of Michigan has named Central Michigan University's Education and Human Services Building as the state's top project of 2010. The award, which was announced at the Michigan Construction and Design Trade Show in Detroit, was the result of an online voting competition that highlighted 12 projects across the state. More than 6,200 online votes were cast, with CMU receiving nearly 40 percent of the total. "We are thrilled that our Education and Human Services Building was named as the state's top project," says Kathy Koch, interim dean of CMU's College of Education and Human Services. "This facility represents the future of education in its emphasis on technology in the classroom, teaching spaces that encourage active student engagement, and attention to the importance of our environment as it influences teaching and learning." Completed in June 2009, the $50 million, four-story, 137,000-square-foot building enhances the learning and classroom atmosphere for thousands of CMU students. The design process began in early 2006 and includes state-of-the-art academic instructional spaces, classroom labs and a child development center. • Station of the Year honors For an unprecedented 10th consecutive MHTV earns 10th straight year, the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts' MHTV has been named College TV Station of the Year by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. determine who gets Station of the Year," says Peter Orlik, director of the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts. also a tribute to the individual students' achievements, their wins in categories that collectively come together to "It's a tribute to the unit as a whole, it's state and one of the few in the country. In this year's MAB awards, News Central 34 took the top two places in the Daily Newscast category. CMU also won the Talk Show, Public Service Announcement, Sports Play-by-Play and Station Activities Report awards. • alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more centralight summer '11 3 the accomplishments of News Central 34, the only student-run hour-long newscast in the A large part of CMU's continued success is

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