Cancer Society Honors MidWeek

The American Cancer Society recently honored MidWeek as winner of the 2011 High Plains Region Media Award for the cover story Taking The BIG Out Of The Big C, about breast cancer research at UH. Accepting the award were editor-in-chief Don Chapman and writer Chad Pata. It’s the second time in four years MidWeek has won this prestigious award. Pictured (from left) are Mike Dany, CEO, ACS High Plains Division; Pata; Dr. Lawrence Tseu, ACS board; Chapman, and Jackie Young, Ph.D., chief staff officer, ACS Hawaii. (Yes, Hawaii is in the ACS High Plains Division with Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.)