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Updated at 8:52 a.m., Thursday, June 14, 2007

HPU student video wins national award

Advertiser Staff

The Hawai'i Pacific University student-produced video, "Peggy With Love," has received national recognition.

Jacqueline Langley, HPU assistant professor of communication, and Mark Nitta, HPU Communication Video Lab manager, along with a team of Hawai'i Pacific students, have won a "Gold" Aurora Award. The award is judged by industry professionals.

"Peggy With Love" is a love letter from the famed Hawai'i watercolor artist Peggy Chun, who is fully paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, to herself. The video, according to an HPU news release, explores Chun's journey toward death. Chun converses with world-renowned death and dying expert Dr. N. Michael Murphy, who founded a pioneering hospice in Albany, N.Y. It is a powerful documentation of Chun confronting death, herself, her life and those she loves.

"Peggy Chun is our teacher because her message is universal — someday we must all confront our deaths," Langley said in a released statement.