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Lucas Mendes, a 1968 WPI fellow from Brazil, has been named a 2015 winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for outstanding reporting on the Americas by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. 
Elisbetta Pique, a 1994 WPI fellow from Argentina and Rome Correspondent for La Nacion, had a front page story in the Buenos Aires daily on her interview with Pope Francis on Dec. 7. Her biography, Pope Francis, Life and Revolution, is to be made into a movie in 2015. 
Dr. Masooda Bano, a 2001 WPI fellow from Pakistan and now a University Research Lecturer at Oxford University in England, has won a prestigious European Research Council Grant. 
Melinda Moses, a 2013 WPI fellow from South Africa, received the 2013 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award for the Northern Region, radio feature category. 
Kaius Niemi, a WPI fellow in 2003, has been appointed Senior Editor-in-Chief of the Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat, effective Sept. 15. 
David King, a 2012 fellow, has two reports on his WPI fellowship submitted to the United States Studies Centre in Syndey, Australia. 
Andras Petho, a 2008 fellow from Hungary, has won an Hungarian investigative reporting award for his series on companies with links to Hungarian government officials. 
Shujaat Bukhari, a 2003 fellow, has been named editor in chief of Rising Kashmir, prominent English daily published from Srinagar, the capital of Indian part of Jammu and Kashmir.