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STARKVILLE, Miss.āĻć½¶Ö±²„ās Office of Public Affairs swept the senior division Grand Award categories during College Public Relations Association of Mississippiās annual competition.
CPRAM is a consortium of public relations professionals employed at Mississippiās public and private colleges and universities. During the annual CPRAM conference last month, OPA Senior Associate Director Harriet Laird was elected to serve as president of the CPRAM board for the 2024-2025 academic year.
A Grand Award in print media and first place in the institutional magazine category went to the 2023 issues of MSUās Alumnus magazine edited by Susan Lassetter, OPA publications editor, and published by OPA and the Ļć½¶Ö±²„Alumni Association. Additional OPA staff contributing to this win include Heather Rowe, digital design editor; photographers Grace Cockrell and Beth Wynn; Carl Smith, multimedia specialist; Harriet Laird; Sid Salter, vice president for strategic communication and director; and former staffers Megan Bean, Robby Lozano, Emily Grace McCall and James Carskadon.
Ļć½¶Ö±²„Foundation and Alumni Association staff also furthering the magazineās merit are Erica Way, marketing manager; Chad Hathcock, communication specialist; Cathy Lammons, communications and donor relations executive director; Jeff Davis, alumni association executive director; and John Rush, vice president for development and alumni. Former staff member Addie Mayfield also was a writer.
Others involved are Vanessa Beeson, Agriculture and Natural Resources Marketing publications editor; Kevin Hudson, Office of Agricultural Communications photographer; Bonnie Coblentz, OAC communication editor; Michaela Parker, OAC marketing coordinator; and Kevin Snyder, athletics photographer. ANRMās Meg Henderson and Kathleen Forman, Bagley College of Engineeringās Emily Cambre, and the Athletics Departmentās Austin Perryman, all previous employees, complete the contributors.
āMariah,ā a documentary produced by OPA and the University Television Center, is the Grand Award recipient in the electronic media category and took home first-place in the television program category. UTC also swept this category with ā9/20ā earning second place and āAny of Themā earning third. Team members for these productions include James Parker, senior documentary and special projects producer; David Garraway, director; Olivia Aylesworth, video producer; Hal Teasler, creative manager; and Sid Salter. The psychology departmentās Emily Stafford and Michael Nadorff were involved in the production of āMariah.āĀ
Additional CPRAM awards include:
NEWS STORY
āFirst Place, āState Climatologist, Ļć½¶Ö±²„Professor: Drought Severity Could Go Either Direction This Winter, Better or Worse,ā by Allison Matthews, OPA news editor.
āThird Place, āFlakesā Stories Illuminate Civil Rights Champion āMama Fannieā at Ļć½¶Ö±²„Event Kicking Off Black History Month Celebration,ā Carl Smith.
FEATURE STORY
āFirst Place, āClosure: Goliath Helps Families Find Answers as a āLast Responder,āā Susan Lassetter, Harriet Laird, Heather Rowe, and Grace Cockrell.
PHOTOGRAPH
āFirst Place, āMaroon Madness,ā Grace Cockrell.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION
āSecond Place, āA Conversation in Code,ā Grace Cockrell.
TV NEWS STORY
āFirst Place, āMadison Brode,ā David Garraway.
TV SPOT
āFirst Place, āWhat Matters 2024,ā David Garraway, James Parker, Sid Salter, and Don Warren, UTC senior producer.
āThird Place, āNortheast Foodie Trail,ā Don Warren and Brett Thornburg, UTC video producer.
TV PROGRAM
āFirst Place, āMariah,ā James Parker, David Garraway, Olivia Aylsworth, Emily Stafford, Hal Teasler and Michael Nadorff.
āSecond Place, ā9/20,ā James Parker, David Garraway, Olivia Aylsworth, Hal Teasler and Sid Salter.
āThird Place, āAny of Them,ā Olivia Aylsworth.
NON-SPORTS SOCIAL MEDIA
āFirst Place, āMaroon Dreams 2023,ā David Garraway, Melanie Harris, Ļć½¶Ö±²„theater instructor; and Sam Baker, former Ļć½¶Ö±²„alumni social media coordinator and current alumni digital media manager.
āThird Place, āBully Move 2023,ā David Garraway, Don Warren, and Sam Baker.
NON-SPORTS PROMO/HYPE VIDEO
āSecond Place, āTaking Care of What Matters,ā David Garraway, James Parker, Sid Salter, Don Warren and Olivia Aylsworth.
PR CAMPAIGN
āFirst Place, āTransforming MSU,ā Office of Public Affairs, Ļć½¶Ö±²„Television Center, Office of Provost and Executive Vice President.
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