Valerie Pensa of Hoboken, N.J. receives recent Alumni Achievement Award at Quinnipiac University

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Valerie Pensa

HAMDEN, CT (02/18/2010)(readMedia)-- Valerie Pensa, of Hoboken, N.J., received the Recent Alumni Achievement Award at Quinnipiac University's Winter Homecoming celebration on Feb. 6.

The Recent Alumni Achievement Award is presented to alumni that have graduated within the past 10 years and who have made outstanding contributions to their profession and/or community since graduation, role-modeled the university's commitment to excellence to fellow alumni through the alumni association, encouraged fellow graduates to stay connected with the university and displayed dedication to university through meaning philanthropy to Quinnipiac.

Pensa is the marketing director at A&M/Octone Records where she works directly with the musical groups Maroon 5 and Flyleaf and on the campaigns of various other rising artists. She recently orchestrated a global licensing/sponsorship/touring partnership with hip-hop artist K'NAAN and Coca-Cola for an international music campaign.

She received her bachelor's degree in communications from Quinnipiac in 2004. In 2009, Pensa was named to Billboard's prestigious "Top 30 Under 30" list.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 5,700 full-time undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students in 52 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs of study in its School of Business, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac ranks among the top 10 universities with master's programs in the Northern region in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges. The 2009 issue of U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master's programs in the North. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's The Best 371 Colleges. For more information, please visit http://quinnipiac.edu.