Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Mississippi State senior is being recognized as the state's top public relations student by the Public Relations Association of Mississippi.
Communication/public relations major Kayla E. Bradley of Laurel recently was named the inaugural winner of PRAM's Student of the Year Award. A $1,000 check accompanied the award.
Bradley, the daughter of Donald and Elizabeth Bradley, is a graduate of Northeast Jones High School and Jones County Junior College. Since enrolling at MSU for the 2009 spring semester, she consistently has been included on the President's Scholar List whose requirements include, among others, a grade-point-average between 3.80 and a perfect 4.0.
Additionally, the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi--a separate organization--is recognizing Bradley with a $500 scholarship for her essay, "What I Hope to Offer the Field of Communication." The scholarship competition is open to all full-time majors in public relations, communications, journalism, advertising, mass communications, political communications, crisis management, graphic design, or other communication-oriented majors.
PRAM represents some 600 professionals statewide in advertising and public relations agencies and offices, as well as corporate, non-profit, government, education, industrial, and other organizations. It includes 10 local chapters and is a member of the Southern Public Relations Federation.
CPRAM membership includes full-time public relations or information staffs of the state's public and private senior institutions of higher learning, as well as community and junior colleges and government educational agencies.
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For more information, contact MSU communication department head John Forde at 662-325-8033 or jforde@comm.msstate.edu.
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