[Ads-l] Important! Deadline extended for 2025 annual award and travel grants

[Grant Barrett]

Heads up that the deadline has been extended for the following American
Dialect Society travel grants and honorary membership award is still
accepting nominations!

*Please send this reminder around to your peers and grad students.*

*Travel grants for students*: Two travel grants of $500 each will be
awarded at the meeting to students whose papers or posters have been chosen
for the 2025 American Dialect Society annual meeting program. Nominations
from the student’s advisor or other professor in the form of a letter to
ADS Vice President and Program Chair Joe Salmons jsalmons at wisc.edu. The
deadline for nominations is now extended to *December 15, 2024*.

*Travel grant for an ADS member*: The ninth annual Audrey Duckert Memorial
Travel Award of $500 to attend the 2025 Annual Meeting will be given to an
ADS member. Audrey Duckert was a long-time member of ADS and co-founder of
the *Dictionary of American Regional English*. The recipient will be chosen
by ADS President, Patricia Cukor-Avila patricia.cukor-avila at unt.edu.
Applications in the form of a letter to President Cukor-Avila are now
extended to *December 15, 2024*.

*Presidential Honorary Membership Award*: 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 2025 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, Patricia Cukor-Avila:
patricia.cukor-avila at unt.edu. Relevant attachments may be included with the
recommendation. The deadline for nominations is *December 23, 2024*.
Nominations received after this date will not be accepted.


Best wishes,

Grant Barrett
American Dialect Society
Vice President of Communications and Technology
http://americandialect.org
grantbarrett at gmail.com

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