Three MU faculty members - Jacqui Banaszynski, Pam Johnson, and Geneva Overholser - are winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.

JACQUI BANASZYNSKI: While at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, her series "AIDS in the Heartland" - an intimate look at the life and death of a gay farm couple - won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing.

PAM JOHNSON: She shared the 1982 Pulitzer Prize that was awarded to The Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times for coverage of the Hyatt Hotel skywalks collapse.

GENEVA OVERHOLSER: Under her leadership, the Des Moines Register won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for public service for a series on the rape of an Iowa woman, using her name and photographs.