Student gets Princess Grace Award

Maria Buendia-Senties, a graduate student in the Department of Radio-Television-Film, has been named a Princess Grace Award winner in the film category. She is the fourth film student from the university to be recognized by the Princess Grace Foundation-USA. Buendia-Senties has won the Cary Grant Film Award, a graduate scholarship to complete her thesis film, “El Puente” (The Bridge), which will show the Mexican-American border in a way that conveys the riveting lifestyle of its people and how their stories get lost in translation by the media.