Hometown News Release Form

College of Agriculture faculty, staff and students may use this form to submit award/recognition information for a news release that would be prepared by Ag Information and sent to hometown newspapers.


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Title: (Suggestion: 'Lastname' wins state honors at soil judging contest)

Contact: (Students should enter professor who knows about this award/honor. Faculty/staff should enter their own name)

Phone number (Enter phone number of person named above): ()-

Your e-mail (Enter e-mail of person named above):

Your first name: last name:

Your hometown: State

Your award or honor:

Name of event/contest you attended or organization that issued the honor:

Location of event:

Date of event or award presentation:

List your title, for faculty/staff, or degree/classification for students:

Location of university or agency affiliation giving award:

Describe in no more than 250 words the competition that was required to win the award, or the purpose behind the honor that was bestowed:

Describe in no more than 250 words any citations or remarks that were noted as a part of your award/honor:

Include the degrees you have, the university from which you earned it and the year it was bestowed: (Example: bachelor's in animal science from Iowa State in 1978.
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Please send my release to:
Name of newspaper
Street address
City State Zip


and (* optional)
Name of newspaper
Street address
City State Zip


Comments/Questions to :
Ed Adcock
Ag Information
Iowa State University
304 Curtiss Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011-1050