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Academic and Research Learning Community Call for Research Papers and Posters, and Outstanding Theses and Dissertations; and Research Proposals

RESEARCH PAPERS

Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, January 24, 2025

Submit papers to: Dr. Alyssa Rockers at arockers@iastate.edu

Research Paper Submission Information

FULL paper submissions are invited from professional communicators, faculty members, graduate students and/or undergraduate students and should be relevant to the field of agricultural communications and ACE membership to be considered for review. Selections will be made from these submissions for the conference agenda through a double-blind, peer-review process. Abstract submissions are not accepted. 

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POSTERS

Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, February 14, 2025

Submit posters to: Dr. Whitney Stone at whitney.stone@oregonstate.edu

Research and Innovative Poster Submission Information

Posters provide a unique and informal means for researchers, practitioners, and students to share their work and interests. There are two categories for posters:

·        Innovative idea posters must be a new idea or the creative modification of an existing idea or process.

·        Research posters must be related to a problem, demonstrate a need for research, and implement the research process.

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OUTSTANDING RESEARCH PROPOSALS

Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, February 15, 2025

Submit proposals to: Dr. Austin Moore at austin.moore@abac.edu

Outstanding Research Proposal Information

·        Institutions may submit FULL student research proposals that are focused on research related to communications in agriculture and/or natural resources (maximum of 20 pages, not including references and appendices).

·        Submissions must be original research proposed as part of a thesis, dissertation or another research project created between the dates of January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024.

·        A graduate student must be listed as the principal investigator, including research proposal that are not part of a thesis or dissertation. 

·        Each institution may submit up to two proposals for consideration.

·        The graduate student author or at least one members of their committee must be a current ACE member 

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OUTSTANDING THESES & DISSERTATIONS

Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, February 15, 2025

Submit to: Dr. Austin Moore at austin.moore@abac.edu

Eligibility 
·        Master’s and doctoral students completing a thesis/dissertation with a publication date between January 1 and December 31, 2024 will be considered for the 2025 award competition. 
·        One nominee (for each category: thesis and dissertation) will be accepted per institution each year. Institutional nominations shall be determined using procedures developed by the degree-related graduate faculty at each respective institution. 
·        At least one of the members of the committee or the nominated student must be a current ACE member 
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Thank you,

Dr. Cara Lawson, Chair

Dr. Austin Moore, Vice Chair

Dr. Alyssa Rockers, Research Director

Dr. Whitney Stone, Secretary




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