GVSU student, staff win public relations awards

A Grand Valley student won the Student of the Year award from the West Michigan Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. Daltyn Little, an advertising and public relations senior at Grand Valley, received the award at the 30th annual PRoof Awards held May 7 at Studio D2D in Grand Rapids.

Staff members in the University Communications office at Grand Valley received 14 awards at the awards ceremony.

They included:
• Affordable Care Act Study: Gold Award
• Faucet Snail Research: Gold Award
• Family Owned Business Institute Study: Gold Award
• Seeds of Promise feature story: Gold Award
• Student veterans feature story: Gold Award
• Covenant House feature story: Gold Award
• A crafty holiday greeting on social media: Gold Award
• Bringing Instagram to Life Campaign: Gold Award
• Commencement video: Gold Award
• V’Lecea Hunter Story video: Gold Award
• Giving Tuesday video: Gold Award
• Scholarship video: Gold Award
• Class of 2018 photo: Silver Award
• Grand Valley Magazine: Gold Award