Awards

Lash Publications International Receives Second APEX Award

Lash Publications International is pleased to announce that the company has won its second APEX Award of Excellence from Communications Concepts, Inc. APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. APEX Grand Awards honor the outstanding works in each of the 11 main categories: newsletters, magazines and journals, magapapers and newspapers, annual reports, brochures/manuals/reports, video and multimedia publications, Web and Intranet sites, campaigns/programs/plans, writing, design and illustration, and special publications. APEX Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional entries in each of the 93 sub-categories. The panel of judges included Dr. Paul Fisher, formerly Professor of Journalism with the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

This year’s competition, the Eleventh Annual Awards for Publication Excellence, received close to 4900 entries. Lash Publications received an Award of Excellence in the feature writing sub-category for the article, "Moving R&D Into the Networking Fastlane," written by Laurel M. Sheppard, which was the cover story in the November/December 1998 issue of SWE magazine (published by the Society of Women Engineers). The article discussed the current status, technical challenges and future outlook of Internet2.

Lash Publications received its first APEX Award of Excellence in the technical writing sub-category in 1996 for a chapter on recycling of ceramics and glass, published in ASM International’s Engineered Materials Handbook, Desk Edition.