Nuried Hurtado Guzman, a Kent State University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in in journalism and a double minor in digital media production, has won the 2024 Marge McNab Block scholarship.
The $1,000 award from The Blade is given each year to the senior female journalism student with the highest grade-point average at Kent State. Ms. Hurtado Guzman had a 3.89 GPA.
While at Kent State, Ms. Hurtado Guzman, an international student from Cusco, Peru, worked at the university’s student media and TV2, the university’s television station, including three semesters as the general manager.
She plans to pursue a dual master’s degree in communication studies and business administration at Kent State.
The Marge McNab Block award is named for the late Mrs. Block, a Kent State graduate who was a reporter and director of features and women’s news at The Blade. Her husband was Paul Block, Jr., co-publisher of The Blade from 1942 until his death in 1987.
Mrs. Block died in 1960.