Merit-Based Scholarships

Ken Fink Michigan Daily Award

The Ken Fink Award Fund supports an annual prize to a staff photographer who demonstrates creativity, humor, spontaneity, originality and technical mastery. The fund was established as a memorial to Ken Fink, a Daily photographer, Photo Editor and Arts & Food Editor from 1972 through 1977 by a group of his college newspaper friends in 1999.

Ray O’Hara Sports Writing Award
The Ray O’Hara Sports Writing Award Fund supports an annual prize to a sports writer at the The Michigan Daily who creates “an article or series of articles that exhibit a perspective that respects the unique role of the Daily as the ‘students’ newspaper’, the significance of athletics to the University, and the relationships among the student athlete, the University and the student body. The article should also illustrate an investigative journalistic style that exhibits candor, a search for truth and a sense of humor, yet honors the highest ethics and principles of journalism.” This fund was established in 1998 in memory of Ray O’Hara, a sports writer for the Daily in the mid-1970’s who maintained a lifelong love for The University of Michigan and its athletics.

Naweed Sikora Scholarship Fund
Established in memory of former Daily sports editor, Naweed Sikora (BBA '04), the Naweed Sikora Scholarship Fund provides support to any Michigan Daily writer, who has worked for the Daily for at least two semesters.

The Michigan Daily Honors Scholarship Fund (Merit and Need-based)
The Michigan Daily Scholarship Fund provides support to any Michigan Daily writer, who also participates in the College for Literature, Science and the Arts' Honors Program.