When Meghan Hurley got word last month that she had won the Eileen Egan Award for a series of articles on global trade, she was doing volunteer work with teenage girls high in the Andes Mountains, half a world away from Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa

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When Meghan Hurley got word last month that she had won the Eileen Egan Award for a series of articles on global trade, she was doing volunteer work with teenage girls high in the Andes Mountains, half a world away from Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa. The stories by Hurley and fellow student Amanda Finnegan helped spur the college's food service to add fair-trade coffee and other items to its menus. It is the first time Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' international aid and development agency, has honored journalists for stories published in a college paper. Both Hurley, who graduated in 2007, and Finnegan, who graduated in May, majored in English and communications. Finnegan has a new job at the Las Vegas Sun.

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