Elizabeth Kelleher, a senior at Syracuse University in New York, has been awarded the Dorothy Burnham Award by the English department for outstanding work in creative writing by a graduating senior. The daughter of James Kelleher and Gwyneth Wallace of Edgartown, Elizabeth will graduate this weekend with honors from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a bachelor of science degree in television, radio and film production, and a minor in English and creative writing. She is a graduate of both the Edgartown School and the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.