Ag Communication's Miller Receives ACE National Fellow Award for 2024

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Jefferson Miller is a professor in Bumpers College's Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology.

Jefferson Miller, U of A professor of agricultural communications, has been named recipient of the 2024 Fellow Award by the Association for Communication Excellence.

The Fellow Award, given to one person each year, is the highest ACE honor, recognizing sustained excellence and professionalism in the communications field and enduring impact of work and service.

Miller has 28 years of experience working in the land-grant system in the agricultural communications discipline, including 23 years as a faculty member in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Science's Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology.

He has helped lead the growth of the agricultural communications concentration since its inception in 2001 and received multiple local, regional and national awards for teaching, advising and research.

He developed much of the agricultural communications curriculum and created the Ag Communications Experiential Learning Lab, which employs undergraduate and graduate students who produce communications materials for clients.

Miller leads a semi-annual multi-university study tour in the United Kingdom focused on agricultural communications, is working with faculty to expand the academic discipline in U.K. colleges and universities, and has conducted ongoing research on news media coverage of agricultural issues as well as on the development of academic curriculum in the discipline.

He has published 27 journal articles and 42 peer-reviewed research papers, including three Journal of Applied Communications articles of the year.

Miller has served as president of the Bumpers College faculty and has served three terms as the college's curriculum committee chair. He has served as national treasurer of ACE as well as the National Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow, recently completed a team as executive editor of the Journal of Applied Communications and currently serves as ACE's co-director of development.

He has been an ACE member since 1995 and will be recognized at the 2024 ACE annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 25.

ACE is an international association of professionals who practice in all areas of communication. ACE offers professional development and networking for individuals who extend knowledge about agriculture, natural resources, and life and human sciences. Members are communication faculty and professionals at public and land-grant universities throughout the U.S. and in similar institutions in other nations. Members are communication professionals at local, state and federal agencies; corporations and nonprofit organizations; and agriculture- and natural resources-focused international research centers.

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