Check here for a story from the latest edition of IFAJ News — a publication deftly edited by Australian journalist Liz Harfull — about the first graduates from the University of Guelph agricultural communications diploma program. The story notes the graduates were recognized at a special ceremony at the Delta Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre, which is home base for the Guelph leg of the 2011 IFAJ Congress.
OWEN ROBERTS
Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.