A Navy Officer in Training

Photo posted December 12, 2012 in News by Jill Knight

Unique from other Naval ROTC cadets at Penn State, Lauren Chapman, a soon to be second lieutenant in the United States Navy, also holds a spot on the school’s cheerleading team.  “Someone is always telling me how to wear my hair,” says Chapman, joking that her hairstyle is just one of the many aspects controlled her commitment to ROTC and cheerleading.  With just one semester of college between Chapman and her commissioning, she leads the life of both a girlish cheerleader as well as that of Navy officer in training.

 

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Jill Knight

Graduate / Visual Journalism

Jill Knight is a graduate of the visual journalism program at Penn State’s University Park campus.

In the spring of 2012, Jill traveled to Rio de Janeiro with a team of students for a short-term international reporting project. Her multimedia piece from the trip won first place in a NPPA quarterly student clip contest and was published in various McClatchy news service publications.

In the fall of 2012, Jill was selected to be a member of the Online News Assocation student newsroom and was invited to attend the Eddie Adams workshop. Jill has worked as a freelance photographer for Polaris Images, The Centre Daily Times, The York Dispatch, The Fayetteville Observer and is a student contributor to Penn State’s CommMedia.

Jill’s photo story, A Navy Officer in Training, recently won 4th place in the Hearst Journalism Awards picture story category.

Jill was most recently a photo intern at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and will be interning with the Charlotte Observer in summer 2013.

Her work can be seen on her website: http://www.jillianknight.com