Brad Wolverton, senior editor of Money & Management for The Chronicle of Higher Education

We see about a dozen interns here at the Chronicle every year, and over the past six years I would put Stu in the top 1 or 2 of all I've worked with. His natural intellectual curiosity and tenacity make him a great reporter well ahead of his years. He routinely handled a variety of both simple and complex stories we threw at him, always delivering ahead of deadline. He also demonstrated the qualities you look for in a more seasoned journalist, sniffing out stories where other reporters hadn't thought to look and regularly coming up with his own ideas that worked into solid features for our publication.

Ross Frazier, editor-in-chief for The Brown Daily Herald

When Google Street View came to Providence, Stu realized there was a story there, even though others didn't necessarily see it.  He went on the computer and looked for students sitting on street corners or riding in cars and then tracked them down for interviews, reporting on the inherent privacy conflict that arises from the service. His writing (clear and filled with voice) and reporting (the kind that perfectly hits on an issue without banging at it so hard as to miss the point) captured the seemingly trivial event wonderfully.  That story debuted a Friday feature he invented, called the Spotlight, setting the example for a series of quirky off-the-beaten-path stories that have added quality to our coverage

Mary-Catherine Lader, former editor-in-chief for The Brown Daily Herald

Stu's dedication to journalism, even in our competitive newsroom filled with aspiring reporters, is unparalleled. He consistently took on more assignments than necessary, sought out stories we thought too difficult to get on the record (landing an interview with media-shy former Duke lacrosse player Reade Seligmann, for example) and packaged a handful of features into fantastic 'conceptual scoop' stories (about Brown's YouTube enthusiasts or Google Maps' impact on students' privacy). Even with a deadline minutes away, Stu never compromised his writing quality, repeatedly re-writing ledes with equal attention to structure, brevity and rhythm.

Source | The Brown Daily Herald
Reade Seligmann '09 is sitting in a Starbucks a block away from Times Square, talking about some of the students he knows at Brown, when a woman with black hair, heavy, dark-blue eye shadow and an "I Love NY" shirt approaches the table.

Source | The Brown Daily Herald
As Craig Robinson takes a sip of his coffee, his cell phone buzzes. He puts down his drink to look at a new e-mail. "German public radio," he says. They want an interview.

Source | The Brown Daily Herald
One day last fall, Minsuk Kim '08 put on a teal sweater, gray pants and black shoes. He and a friend then walked east on Williams Street, around the corner from Kim's apartment. Kim doesn't recall this particular incident. But Google does.

Source | The Brown Daily Herald
Before sitting down to talk about his recent decision to leave the Republican Party, Lincoln Chafee '75 pulls out the program for this February's Follies, an annual revue put on by the Providence Newspaper Guild.