"Global Alert" producer Mike Wilson hands off the PAB award to communications media professor Zachary J. Stiegler, Ph.D., faculty adviser to WIUP-FM, Davis Hall, May 7, 2010. Photo by David Loomis.

INDIANA -- The Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters has honored for excellence a student-produced news program aired on WIUP-FM (90.1).

"Global Alert," a live hour-long Sunday-morning show sponsored by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, won the association's Outstanding Radio Public Affairs Program award in its 2010 Excellence in Broadcasting Competition. The Hummelstown-based association announced the award in a March 24 release.

Megan Guza, IUP sophomore majoring in journalism and criminology, from Bentleyville, Pa. On the March 21, 2010, "Global Alert" program, Guza discussed her investigative reporting using the Pennsylvania Right to Know Law.

Jeff Raykes, chief planner, Indiana County Office of Planning and Development, discusses local U.S. Census issues during a March 21, 2010, "Global Alert" program segment on the 2010 Census. With Raykes is daughter Adelaide Love Raykes. Photos by David Loomis.

1)      On March 16, federal and local officials descended on Indiana University of Pennsylvania to remind residents about the decennial U.S. Census questionnaire that was arriving in mailboxes nationwide that week. Their message: Fill out and return the Census form based on where you reside on April 1. If that's on the IUP campus, then students should so indicate on the 10-question Census form.

One local official who reinforced this message is Jeff Raykes, chief planner for Indiana County's Office of Planning and Development. Raykes joined "Global Alert" in the WIUP-FM studio for the March 21 program segment on the local angle on the 2010 census.