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Latest News and Current Calls

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American Academy of Advertising's Call for Nominations for Six Prestigious Career Awards - Deadline, December 2, 2024 click here

Ivan L Preston Outstanding Contribution to Advertising Research Award

Distinguished Service Award

Billy I. Ross Advertising Education Award

Kim Rotzoll Award for Advertising Ethics and Social Responsibility

Charles H. Sandage Award for Teaching Excellence (called the “Sandy”)

Mary Alice Shaver Promising Professor Award

Special Opportunities for Graduate Students:

2025 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition - November 1, 2024 deadline - click here
2025 Dunn Award Competition for International Research by Graduate Students - November 1, 2024 deadline - click here
2025 Graduate Student Non-Dissertation Award Competition - November 1, 2024 deadline - click here
2025 Graduate Student Conference Travel Scholarships - December 31, 2024 deadline - click here

Take Note!

Check out the September 2024 AAA Newsletter! Click here.
New JCIRA podcasts have been posted.

Listen to them on:
1) YouTube playlist: https://lnkd.in/eTfYF3jg
2) The RSS website: https://lnkd.in/e3-pD5yh
3) Keyword search “Curious and Interesting” on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, and Spotify

Episodes include:
•    Forecasting sustainability: Climate action on social media
•    How AI and context shape what you see
•    Influencer size and trust
•    Smart queries, better insights
•    AI's triple bottom line: Profits, people, and the planet in advertising

Each episode is an open-access, two-minute, layman’s language summary of a paper to be published in JCIRA in the third issue of 2024.