<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Nominations are still being accepted for the following American Dialect Society grants and awards:</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><strong style=""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></strong></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong style=""><span style="color:black">Travel grants for students:</span></strong><span style="color:black"> Two travel grants of $500 each will be awarded at the meeting to students whose papers
or posters have been chosen for the program. Nominations from the student’s advisory or other professor in the form of a letter to ADS Vice President and Program Chair, Patricia Cukor-Avila <a href="mailto:patricia.cukor-avila@unt.edu" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#000099">patricia.cukor-avila@unt.edu</span></b></a>.
The deadline for nominations is </span><strong style=""><span style="color:black">November 15, 2023</span></strong><span style="color:black">. Nominations will not be accepted after this date.</span><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="msg5906768028947855767"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_6348452280853786697WordSection1">
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black">Travel grant for an ADS member: </span></strong><span style="color:black">The ninth annual Audrey Duckert Memorial Travel Award of $500 to attend the Annual
Meeting will be given to an ADS member. Audrey Duckert was a long-time member of ADS and co-founder of the <em>Dictionary of American Regional English</em>. The recipient will be chosen by ADS President,
Kathryn Remlinger: <a href="mailto:remlingk@gvsu.edu" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#000099">remlingk@gvsu.edu</span></b></a>. Applications in the form of a letter to President Remlinger are due </span><strong><span style="color:black">November
15, 2023</span></strong><span style="color:black">. Applications sent after this date will not be considered.</span></font></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Presidential Honorary Membership Award</b><u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">American Dialect Society members are invited to nominate outstanding students for a Presidential Honorary Membership. Each year the American Dialect Society president awards three of these memberships. The
award includes four years of complimentary membership and recognition at the ADS 2023 annual luncheon where recipients can attend free of charge as honored guests of ADS. Any student, graduate or undergraduate, is eligible. Any American Dialect Society member
may nominate a candidate by sending an explanatory letter of recommendation to American Dialect Society President, Kathryn Remlinger,
<a href="mailto:remlingk@gvsu.edu" target="_blank">remlingk@gvsu.edu</a>. Relevant attachments may be included with the recommendation. The deadline for nominations is
<b>December 20, 2023</b>. Nominations received after this date will not be accepted.<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>The Roger Shuy Best Paper of the Year in
<i>American Speech</i> Award</b><u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">This award honors the best paper to appear in the American Dialect Society’s journal, <i style="">American Speech</i>, in the previous year. The selection criteria for the award will be based on some or all of the
following: research excellence, exemplification of the mission of the journal, depth and thoroughness of the analysis, innovation, style, anticipated impact, and social relevance. The recipient of the award will be decided by a committee consisting of the
society’s president, its past president, the editor of American Speech, and the managing editor and associate editor of the journal’s pedagogical section. The award has been funded by Professor Roger Shuy. The recipient will receive a $100 award, presented
at the ADS annual luncheon, where the recipient can attend free of charge as an honored guest of ADS.<br></font></p>
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