Contact: Sammy McDavid
Public information offices at Mississippi State University are first-place winners in nine skill categories of the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi's annual competition.
The Agricultural Communications Office received the CPRAM Grand Award in the senior division for a production in the film/slide/video category titled "Producing Quality Timber in Harmony with the Land."
Agricultural Communications, which primarily serves the university's Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine, also received first-place honors in news, sports and radio categories. The sports category award dealt with a print article on safe dove shooting.
The University Relations Office took top honors in four categories, including institutional magazine, tabloid, viewbook, and radio spot. University Relations primarily serves the university's academic and research units outside of the agriculture division at Mississippi's largest institution of higher learning.
MSU's Meridian Campus won first place for a student recruitment display.
The public relations association includes competitive levels for both its senior and community college memberships.
In all, MSU received nearly 20 first-, second- or third-place awards in the 1998 CPRAM judging.