Audrie Garrison
Click on photo to enlarge or download: Audrie GarrisonAudrie Garrison, 21, is a senior at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., and is one of this summer's Scripps Howard Foundation Wire's interns with the Semester in Washington program. She is originally from New Palestine, Ind. She is a journalism and political science major and regularly writes and edits for IU's daily student newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student. She will be editor-in-chief of the paper in the fall. She has also worked as a summer intern at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix and the Shelbyville News in Shelbyville, Ind.
Audrie was first introduced to the Scripps Howard Foundation when she traveled to Japan and South Korea in 2006 with eight other students as part of the Roy W. Howard National Reporting Competition. She was also a Scripps Howard Foundation Top Ten Scholar in 2006.
Reach Audrie Garrison at shws4@shns.com or 202-326-9871.
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Group says answer to high gas prices is God
Submitted on August 15, 2008 - 5:54pm. Audrie GarrisonClick on photo to enlarge or download: Washington-area residents, from left, James Tenor, 46, Jocelyn McClure, 47, Rocky Twyman, 59, and Kenneth Anderson, 48, thank God for lower gas prices at a gas station in Washington as reporters listen. SHFWire photo by Audrie GarrisonWASHINGTON - Rocky Twyman ..
Hidden treasures reside in some D.C. federal buildings
Submitted on August 14, 2008 - 3:40pm. Audrie GarrisonClick on photo to enlarge or download: A Justice Department Building lobby has portraits of men, including Jesus, Moses and Hammurabi, who have contributed to the codification of law The work by Boardman Robinson. is called “Great Codifiers of the Law.” SHFWire photo by Audrie ..
No baby panda for the National Zoo this year
Submitted on August 13, 2008 - 11:26am. Audrie GarrisonClick on photo to enlarge or download: National Zoo giant panda Mei Xiang sleeps in her indoor habitat in July when zoo officials thought she might be pregnant. SHFWire photo by Audrie GarrisonWASHINGTON - Mei Xiang, the National Zoo's female panda, will not give birth this year, zoo officials ..
Poll shows women voters leaning toward Obama
Submitted on August 5, 2008 - 4:33pm. Audrie GarrisonWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has a lead in the race for the women's vote against his Republican opponent, John McCain, although neither has a majority, according to a poll sponsored by Lifetime Networks. Forty-nine percent of the women polled said they support ..
National Zoo awaits a new panda – or two, or none
Submitted on July 31, 2008 - 5:43pm. Audrie Garrison Click on photo to enlarge or download: National Zoo giant panda Mei Xiang sleeps in her indoor habitat Wednesday. Scientists say she might be pregnant, and if she is, will probably give birth within the next few days. SHFWire photo by Audrie GarrisonWASHINGTON - Mei Xiang has a secret.
Plan calls for revamped National Mall
Submitted on July 25, 2008 - 5:25pm. Audrie GarrisonClick on photo to enlarge or download: The Mall lawn between Third Street and 17th Street needs to be replaced and needs a new sprinkler system, said Caroline Cunningham, president of Trust for the National Mall, which is raising money for the Mall’s upkeep. SHFWire photo by Audrie ..
Public opinion polling evolving with America’s shift to cell phones
Submitted on July 21, 2008 - 12:11pm. Audrie GarrisonWASHINGTON - Americans who have traded in their landline phones for mobile phones have a lot in common with each other, according to a Pew Research Center study released in May. The majority is unmarried. They tend to be under age 50. And until recently, they were all left out of public opinion ..
Democrats, Republicans take competitive sprit to baseball diamond
Submitted on July 18, 2008 - 5:00pm. Audrie GarrisonClick on photo to enlarge or download: Rain, thunder and lightning delayed the game by about an hour. This was the first year the Congressional Baseball Game was held at Nationals Park. SHFWire photo by Audrie GarrisonWASHINGTON - They might not have control of the House, but they've got ..
Clotheslines bans concern some environmentalists
Submitted on July 17, 2008 - 2:55pm. Audrie GarrisonWhen it comes to drying laundry, Mimi White strives for simplicity. She strings her wash on a clothesline, letting the sun finish the job. She hasn't used an electric dryer for more than six months, and she says it's one of the easiest ways to live a greener life. "You don't have ..
STS-124 astronauts still hard at work, even with gravity
Submitted on July 15, 2008 - 5:44pm. Audrie GarrisonWASHINGTON - It's been a month since the crew of the STS-124 space mission left Buzz Lightyear to hold down the fort at the International Space Station. "He took Garret (Reisman)'s place on the space station," commander Mark Kelly said of the plastic figurine he and his crew ..
