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ACM & SCS Doctoral Dissertation Awards

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Nomination materials that do not also have a checklist provided will be held from review until a NOMINATION CHECKLIST is provided.

ACM Code of Ethics & Core Values

Acm has implemented the following change to the acm doctoral dissertation award nomination process:.

• Nominators and endorsers for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award will now be required to indicate whether they are aware of any action committed by the candidate that violates the ACM Code of Ethics and ACM's Core Values. See the Policy for Honors Conferred by ACM .
• ACM provides Guidelines for Nominators and Endorsers (PDF).
• For questions regarding these new requirements please contact [email protected]

CORE VALUES

• Technical excellence
• Education and technical advancement
• Ethical computing and technology for positive impact
• Diversity and inclusion

GENERAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

• Contribute to society and to human well-being, acknowledging that all people are stakeholders in computing.
• Avoid harm.
• Be honest and trustworthy.
• Be fair and take action not to discriminate.
• Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works, and computing artifacts.
• Respect privacy.
• Honor confidentiality.

ACM Nomination Overview

• ACM Nomination Details (ACM website)
• Eligibility (for either award) : Dissertations certified from October 1st, 2022 through September 30, 2023.
• Nomination materials, including supporting letters, should be uploaded by Friday, September 15, 2023 (11:59PM ET) via the uploader available below.
• We know ACM timing allows for theses certified after our internal deadline. Please contact Jenn directly if you anticipate nominating your advisee's thesis that will be certified between the internal SCS deadline of September 15th and September 30th.
• Any CS-related thesis is eligible for consideration for the ACM award, including those of students in any SCS or ECE doctoral program. All SCS and ECE faculty are invited to submit nominations for these doctoral dissertation awards, following the procedures detailed on this page.
• ECE nominated theses are only eligible for consideration for the ACM nominations.

Internal Nomination Overview

Important please note internal scs nomination details that differ from those on acm's website..

• SCS & ECE grant more than 10 doctoral degrees annually. SCS, through an agreement with ACM, manages the upload of two nominations each year.
• Advisors should NOT nominate their student's thesis directly to ACM .
• Selection Criteria : Dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution, potential impact on theory and practice, and quality of presentation.
• We expect the nomination sets for ACM/SCS to intersect, but not necessarily be the same. Moreover, the thesis chosen for the SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award may not necessarily be chosen to be one of the two sent as Carnegie Mellon's nominations to ACM.
• Past recipients of the SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award Past recipients of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Internal Nomination Requirements

Please use the downloadable nomination checklist (fillable pdf).

• Nominations for either/both awards should include:
• 1. All items required in the ACM Submissions section at the bottom of their page: https://awards.acm.org/doctoral-dissertation/nominations should be uploaded by the internal deadline.
• 2. We also request the nominated student's CV.

NOTE : This department head endorsement is in addition to the 3-5 endorsement letters.

We will follow up directly with Dept. Heads for the endorsement letter to complete the nomination packet if the thesis is selected for ACM nomination.

• 4. Please remember to select on the NOMINATION CHECKLIST which award(s) the nomination is for (ACM / SCS / both). The form should be uploaded as part of your packet.

When are the awards announced?

• The SCS Doctoral Dissertation Award winner is announced at the beginning of November each fall semester , at the conclusion of the selection process.
• The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award *NOMINEES* are announced at the beginning of November at the same time as the announcement for the SCS award *WINNER*.

A note about endorsement letters

• Each letter should include the name, address, and telephone number of the endorser.
• All materials, including support letters, must be uploaded via this portal. Please provide letter writers a link to this page when requesting their endorsement.
• Support letters should be uploaded by the SCS internal nomination deadline. They are read and used by the SCS Nominating Committee as part of the nomination and award process. The committee takes into consideration expert information provided in support letters to help determine the outcome of the SCS award in addition to the 2 nominations sent on to ACM.
• Multiple files can be uploaded at once and this uploader can be used as many times as necessary until you have provided all packet items. In the same session, refreshing your browser window will enable additional uploads.

ACM SIGMICRO

Dissertation award.

2023 Nominations

Nominate someone for the 2023 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award! Read the eligibility criteria and application requirements below, and submit your nomination via email to award chair Pradip Bose by August 18 August 25, 2023 .

Eligibility

Eligible dissertations must have been successfully defended and deposited in the previous calendar year. Each nominated dissertation must be on a topic relevant to computer microarchitecture. The determination of whether a thesis is within scope for the award will be made by the SIGMICRO Dissertation Award Committee.

A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGMICRO Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. However, a dissertation that has received the SIGARCH Dissertation Award is ineligible for nomination.

Application Requirements

Nominations should be made in the form of an email addressed to the Chair of the Dissertation Award Committee (Pradip Bose; [email protected]) with the subject 2023 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award Nomination . Self nominations are not allowed. The following materials are required for the nomination:

• English language copy of the thesis.
• A statement from the nominator, limited to two pages, addressing why the nominee's dissertation should receive this award. This should address the significance of the dissertation, and not simply repeat information in the thesis abstract.
• Three letters of support, limited to two pages each. Supporting letters should be included from experts in the field who can provide additional insights or evidence of the dissertation's impact. The nominator/advisor may not write a letter of support. The letter should also contain the qualification of the endorser and his/her role with respect to the nominee. If a letter writer is supporting more than one nomination, they may be asked to rank those nominations.
• A list of publications contributing to thesis.
• Suggested citation if the candidate is selected. This should be a concise statement (maximum of 25 words) describing the key technical contribution for which the candidate merits this award. Note that the final wording for awardees will be at the discretion of the Dissertation Award Committee.

Past Recipients

SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award

We invite you to nominate PhD dissertations for the ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award recognizes excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of mobile, sensor and ubiquitous systems and networking. The winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at an ACM SIGMOBILE conferences of the winner's choice. The award winner will receive a plaque, a $1,000 honorarium and a complimentary registration to one of the following year ACM SIGMOBILE Conferences. The runners-up will each receive a plaque.

Current Submission Deadline : April 8, 2024 (AOE).

Current Awardees

Jingxian Wang Carnegie Mellon University Blind Wireless Beamforming to Power, Heat, and Move

For advancing the science and interdisciplinary applications of wireless energy Transfer.

Andrea Ferlini (Runner Up) University of Cambridge Exploring the Potential of Earables for Personal-Scale Sensing

For advancing the state of art of sensing in ear-worn devices.

Past Awardees

Rajalakshmi Nandakumar University of Washington Computational Wireless Sensing at Scale

For creating an easily-deployed technique for low-cost millimeter-accuracy sensing on commodity hardware, and its bold and high-impact applications to important societal problems.

Tingjun Chen (Runner Up) Columbia University Algorithms and Experimentation for Future Wireless Networks: From Internet-of-Things to Full-Duplex

For contributions to ultra-low-power wireless networks based on energy harvesting, and to the theory and practice of full-duplex wireless networks.

Wenguang Mao UT Austin Acoustic Sensing on Smart Devices

Yasaman Ghasempour (Runner Up) Rice University Next-Generation Wireless Systems for Joint Communication and Sensing in Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Spectrum

Elahe Soltanaghaei (Runner Up) University of Virginia Sensing the Physical World Using Pervasive Wireless Infrastructure

Fadel Adib MIT Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses

Fadel's dissertation proposes ways in which Wi-Fi signals, traditionally used for communication, can be extended for use as sensing tools that enable us to learn about our environment without physically reaching out to the various objects in it.

Vamsi Talla University of Washington Power, Communication, Sensing Solutions for Energy Constrainted Platforms

Vamsi's dissertation proposes wireless power delivery and ultra-low power backscatter based communication and sensing solutions for the next billion devices.

Pengyu Zhang UMass Leveraging Backscatter for Ultra-Low Power Wireless Sensing Systems

Pengyu's thesis presents fundamental principles underlying the physical layer, hardware architecture, and operating system design of backscatter based sensors to enable widespread deployment of such systems.

Swarun Kumar (Runner Up) MIT Pushing the Limits of Wireless Networks

Swarun's thesis significantly improves the performance of wireless networks in presence of interference and mobility, and enhances them with accurate location.

Eligibility

• Nominations are limited to one doctoral dissertation per department, and may be from any PhD-granting university in the world.
• The thesis should have been successfully defended and the final version of the dissertation must have been accepted at the nominee's host institution between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024.
• The submission must be on a topic related to mobile, sensor and ubiquitous systems and networking. The determination of whether a submission is in scope for the award will be made by the SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee.
• An English-language version of the dissertation must be submitted with the nomination.
• A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
• Self-nominations are not accepted.

Submission Deadline

April 8, 2024 (AoE)

Submission Email:

cecilia.mascolo (AT) cl.cam.ac.uk

Submission Procedure

All nomination materials must be in English, in PDF format, and submitted by email to the Committee Chair by the submission deadline. Late submissions will not be considered. Nominations must include:

• A statement from the thesis advisor summarizing the contributions and potential impact of the work (no more than two pages).
• A link to the dissertation itself (please refrain from sending large attachments by email) which can be downloaded without difficulty.
• An endorsement letter by the department chair, confirming that the thesis was successfully defended and the final document accepted within the qualifying time period (dates mentioned above).

Dissertation Award Committee

• Fadel Adib, MIT, USA
• Cecilia Mascolo (Chair), University of Cambridge, UK
• Junehwa Song, KAIST, Korea
• Lin Zhong, Yale University, USA
• Xia Zhou, Columbia University, USA

Past Committee Members

• Aruna Balasubramanian (Stony Brook University)
• Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
• Mahadev Satyanarayanan (chair) (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Lin Zhong (Yale University)
• Xia Zhou (Columbia University)

Doctoral Dissertation Award Funding

The funding comes exclusively from ACM SIGMOBILE.

Doctoral Dissertation Award Selection Committee

The Doctoral Dissertation Award Selection Committee will consist of several SIGMOBILE members, one of whom will be appointed as the Selection Committee chair. Award committee members will be appointed by the current SIGMOBILE awards chair. The committee chair will adjudicate conflicts of interest, appointing substitutes to the committee as necessary. Committee members may remain on the committee for up to four years.

Resolution of Conflict of Interest

A member of the Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee who has a potential conflict of interest should report it to the committee chair, and the committee chair will determine whether a conflict exists. If the conflict exists, the committee chair and the SIGMOBILE award chair will replace the member of the award selection committee with another volunteer.

A potential conflict of interest occurs when a person is involved in making a decision that: could result in that person, a close associate of that person, or that person's company or institution receiving significant financial gain, such as a contract or grant, or could result in that person, or a close associate of that person, receiving significant professional recognition, such as an award or the selection of a paper, work, exhibit, or other type of submitted presentation. Some examples of instances of associations that could cause a conflict of interest are: employment at the same institution or company candidate for employment at the same institution or company received an honorarium or stipend from the institution or company within the last year co-author on book or paper in the last 48 months co-principal investigator on grant or research project actively working on project together family relationship close personal relationship graduate advisee/advisor relationship deep personal animosity.

ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Outstanding Dissertation Award | ACM SIGCHI

Sigchi outstanding dissertation award.

We are excited to announce the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, which will recognize the most outstanding research contributions from recently graduated PhD students within the HCI community, showcasing the quality and impact of HCI research.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline:  December 15, 2022 Awards Announced: February 14, 2023

Eligibility

• Eligible dissertations must have been successfully completed between September 1, 2021 and August 31, 2022 . An award date that is appropriate to the candidate’s institution is acceptable, for example graduation date, examination date, or final thesis acceptance date. 
• Candidates will only be eligible to submit once for this award.
• The candidate must be a SIGCHI member.
• Only dissertations written in English will be considered. If a dissertation originally was written in another language, a translation into English is acceptable and can be considered.
• The candidate must have published at least one paper in a “paper venue” (e.g., a full paper or a note) of any length (but not an abstract to support a workshop or other non-paper venue) at a SIGCHI Sponsored or Co-Sponsored conference (see https://new.sigchi.org/conferences/upcoming-conferences/ ) or an ACM-sponsored HCI journal.
• Each nominated dissertation must be on a topic relevant to HCI. The determination of whether a dissertation is within scope for the award will be made by the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee. A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
• Only one nomination may be submitted per department.

Preparing and Submitting

All nomination materials must be submitted by the submission deadline to this online form . Submissions must be submitted in English. PDF format is preferred for textual materials. Supplementary materials must be multi-platform. Late submissions will not be considered.

Nomination for the award must include:

• English language copy of dissertation.
• Statement from an advisor limited to 2 pages addressing why the candidate’s dissertation should receive this award. This should address the significance of the dissertation, not simply repeat the information in the abstract. Nomination must come from the advisor; self-nomination is not allowed.
• One letter of support limited to 2 pages. The supporting letter should be from an expert in the field who can provide additional insights or evidence of the dissertation’s impact. (The nominator/advisor may not write a letter of support.) If a letter-writer is supporting more than one nomination, they may be asked to rank those nominations.
• List of publications contributing to the dissertation.
• SIGCHI membership number for candidate.
• Suggested citation if the candidate is selected. This should be a concise statement (maximum of 50 words) describing the key technical contribution for which the candidate merits this award. Note that the final wording for awardees will be at the discretion of the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee.

Doctoral Award Review Process

Each submission will be reviewed by a panel of experts selected by the SIGCHI Executive Committee to evaluate the quality, contribution, and impact as demonstrated by the submitted thesis and supplementary materials.  

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Assistant Professor Mohammadkazem Taram

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Mohammadkazem Taram at Purdue University, Department of Computer Science for winning the 2023 ACM SIGMICRO Dissertation Award.

Assistant Professor Kazem Taram accepted the award at the 56th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture. The title of Taram's dissertation is "Defusing the tension between security and performance with secure microarchitectures."  The SIGMICRO Outstanding Dissertation Award recognizes excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer microarchitecture. Dissertations are reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution, potential impact, and quality of presentation. Taram is the inaugural winner of the dissertation award.

Dissertation

Defusing the tension between security and performance with secure microarchitectures

Abstract The pursuit of secure computation has always featured a tension between performance  and security. Security mitigations often come with a high performance cost  that can be manifested in serious environmental and economic impacts if they are  employed, and in disastrous security and privacy breaches, if not. In the context of  processor architectures, the security-performance tension is only growing as new attacks  appear, each exploiting a crucial performance optimization, threatening to unwind  decades of architectural gains. These hosts of attacks on microarchitectural optimizations  painfully coincide with an era in which those performance optimizations are needed most – an era when Moore’s law is fading and Denard’s scaling is gone.In this dissertation we strive to defuse this security-performance tension by deepening our understanding of vulnerabilities in modern processors, providing efficient hardware support to enable security, and designing new high-performance securearchitectures. We first show how performance optimizations can have devastating security implications by introducing a novel microarchitectural side-channel attack that targets Data Direct IO, a network packet processing optimization implemented by Intel (Chapter1). Then, we propose Context-Sensitive Decoding (CSD), a framework that takes advantage of the instruction-to-micro-op translation that exists in most modern processors to provide security features (Chapter2). Finally, we propose novel secure and fast architectures to mitigate vulnerabilities in two of the most crucial performance optimizations in modern processors: Speculative Execution (Chapter3)and Simultaneous Multithreading (Chapter4).

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AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award

AAAI and ACM SIGAI established the Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence. The award is presented annually at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the winner is invited to present a talk at the conference.

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Past Recipients

2021 aaai/acm sigai dissertation award winner.

Shibani Santurkar , Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her work entitled Machine Learning Beyond Accuracy: A Features Perspective On Model Generalization

2021 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention

Bryan Wilder , Harvard University for his work entitled AI for Population Health: Melding Data and Algorithms on Networks

2020 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner

Noam Brown , Carnegie Mellon University for his work entitled Equilibrium Finding for Large Adversarial Imperfect-Information Games

2020 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention

David Abel , Brown University for his work entitled A Theory of Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning

Abhishek Das , Georgia Institute of Technology for his work entitled Building Agents that Can See, Talk, and Act

2019 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner

Jiajun Wu , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA for his work entitled Learning to See the Physical World

2019 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention

Aishwarya Agrawal , Georgia Institute of Technology for her work entitled Visual Question Answering and Beyond

Li Dong, University of Edinburgh , for his work entitled Learning Natural Language Interfaces with Neural Models

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Longtime country music duo to perform at CMT Music Awards for first time in 13 years

• Published: Apr. 01, 2024, 4:31 p.m.

Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush of Sugarland perform on stage during the 2011 CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 8, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee. Sugarland will again perform at the CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 7, in Austin, Texas, marking the band's first CMT Music Awards show performance in 13 years. (Photo by FilmMagic/FilmMagic) FilmMagic

• Zach Mentz, cleveland.com

American country music duo Sugarland is returning to the CMT Music Awards show stage for the first time in more than a decade.

Sugarland, founded in Atlanta in 2002 by singer-songwriters Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, will perform at the CMT Music Awards at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, this Sunday, April 7. The duo’s upcoming act will mark its first performance at country music’s most popular awards show since 2011. It will also mark Nettles’ and Bush’s first public performance together since reuniting in 2018 for Sugarland’s “Bigger” album and Still The Same tour, according to CMT .

Sugarland, which has previously won four CMT Music Awards, will perform alongside Little Big Town at Saturday’s awards show. The dual act between Sugarland and Little Big Town will mark the first time the two bands have performed together since the CMT Music Awards in 2009, when they shared the stage with Jake Owen for a rendition of “Life in a Northern Town.”

“Sharing the stage with some of our longtime friends next weekend at the #CMTAwards,” Sugarland said in a tweet Friday. “It’s going to be a special night. Tune in April 7 on CBS.”

The 2024 CMT Music Awards are scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern Sunday on CBS.

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Top artists rave about Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' at iHeartRadio Awards

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter doesn't just have the internet buzzing about her new album "Act II: Cowboy Carter," celebrities on the yellow carpet of the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards also raved about her new country music.

"Just when you think she can't go to the next level, she goes there," said Doechii, who was nominated for three awards. "I think it's amazing, and I want to see more Black cowgirls and cowboys out there."

She was "blown away" by "Cowboy Carter" and appreciates how Beyoncé has crossed over into different genres throughout her career.

The superstar herself attended the awards show at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to receive one of the night's top honors , the Innovator Award, just days after her the album came out on Friday .

Country artist Lainey Wilson, who was nominated twice, said she was "jamming" to "II Most Wanted" featuring Miley Cyrus.

"I'm excited to see the fans that didn't know they liked country music find out that maybe they like it a little bit," Wilson said. "I'm all about seeing country music grow right now."

Blanco Brown, a Black country music artist, said he hadn't had a chance to listen to "Cowboy Carter" yet but he liked the single "Texas Hold 'Em." He hopes more Black artists will find success in the genre going forward.

"I just want to get to a point where it don't feel like we have room for one or two, and it's just music, it speaks for itself," Brown said. "I'm going to keep creating. That's my purpose.

The Black Music Action Coalition released a report in 2022 called "Three Chords & the Actual Truth" about the history of systemic racism in the country music industry. The group's co-founder Willie "Prophet" Stiggers said this was the first Beyoncé album he had listened to from beginning to end and it was "phenomenal."

"What Beyoncé has done I think is remarkable, not only what she has done for herself but the fact that there are six new Black artists streaming on Spotify," Stiggers said. "It's an indication of the audience and the appetite that black people have for country music."

The groundbreaking country music project took over social media and became Spotify's most-streamed album in single day in 2024.

The Innovator Award is given to one artist who continuously contributes to pop culture and the music industry, according to iHeartRadio. 

"Few artists in the course of history have taken creative risks, successfully transformed their music and influenced pop culture on the level that Beyoncé has," an iHeartRadio news release stated. "Throughout the years, the global cultural icon has created music that has topped the charts across multiple formats , while also architecting groundbreaking tours, including last year’s RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR — the highest-grossing tour in history for both an R&B artist and a Black female artist."

The award show was hosted by Ludacris and aired on Fox as well as iHeartMedia radio stations worldwide and the iHeartRadio app.

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Sugarland, Little Big Town Reunite For 2024 CMT Music Awards Performance

The 2024 CMT Music Awards just got a bit sweeter.

CMT revealed Sugarland and Little Big Town will reteam for another history-making performance on the CMT Music Awards, which are set for April 7 in Austin, Texas.

Fans can watch the show (8:00-11:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and  stream it live and on demand on Paramount+.*

Sugarland is marking the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough hit “Baby Girl.” The televised performance marks the first time the duo has been on the CMT Music Awards since 2011. It’s also the first time Sugarland has publicly performed together since reuniting in 2018 for their “Bigger” album and Still The Same Tour.

Little Big Town is celebrating 25 years as one of country music’s most beloved vocal groups this year and, with 25 nominations, has been nominated for Group of the Year in the award show’s history.

The group’s “CMT STORYTELLERS: LITTLE BIG TOWN” will premiere on Friday, April 5 (8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT) as part of CMT AWARDS WEEKEND.

The last time the Grammy-winning Sugarland and Little Big Town collaborated on the CMT Music Awards was 15 years ago with they shared the stage with Jake Owen for a cover of “Life In a Northern Town.”  Owen and Little Big Town joined Sugarland on their headlining tour that year, and “Life In A Northern Town” became a significant hit.

Other 2024 CMT Music Awards performers include Trisha Yearwood, Kelsea  Ballerini, Megan Moroney, NEEDTOBREATHE + Jordan Davis, Old Dominion, Bailey Zimmerman, Jelly Roll, Keith Urban, Lainey Wilson and Sam Hunt.

Ballerini, Wilson and Jelly Roll are part of a five-way tie for leading nominee at the fan-voted awards show alongside Cody Johnson and Megan Moroney. Each artist is up for three awards at the 2024 CMT Music Awards.

There are 14 first-time nominees from a variety of genres, including Amber Riley, Ashley Cooke, Bret Michaels, Chayce Beckham, Hozier, Koe Wetzel, Stephen Wilson Jr., Tyler Childers, Warren Zeiders, Zach Bryan, Anne Wilson, Ella Langley, The Castellows and Tigirlily Gold.

The nominees for the night’s top honor—Video of the Year—are also eclectic and include Ballerini, Kacey Musgraves and Brandy Clark featuring Brandi Carlile, in addition to Darius Rucker, Childers and Bryan.

 Fan voting is open now through April 1 in nine categories. Voting for Video of the Year will remain open through portions of the CMT Music Awards. To vote, visit vote.cmt.com .

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Beyoncé wins innovation award, thanks Black musicians ‘who defied any label'

The singer thanked black artists “who defied any label placed upon them” during iheartradio music awards speech., by liz calvario | today • published april 2, 2024 • updated on april 2, 2024 at 8:11 am.

Beyoncé was a showstopper at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards.

The singer, fresh off the release of her latest new album,  “Cowboy Carter,”  made an appearance at the awards show at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 1.

The “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer was honored with the Innovator Award during the ceremony. She was also up for R&B song of the year for “Cuff It” and R&B artist of the year, among others.

Before she took the stage, Stevie Wonder spoke wonders of “the  most awarded person in Grammy history ,” before touching on her past accolades, chart-topping albums, goodwill and history-making moments.

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“Now, Beyoncé is once again changing music and culture,” Wonder said about her latest record, in part. “And when she’s not changing music, she’s changing the world, fighting the good fight.”

In an outfit fit for a country queen, Beyoncé donned an all-black, Western-inspired ensemble. The “Ya Ya” singer wore black leather jumpsuit with gold detailing. She accessorized with a matching black hat with gold hardware.

Beyoncé thanked Wonder for “making a way for all of us” and said she was honored to receive this recognition from him. She also mentioned that he played the harmonica on  her recent version of Dolly Parton’s iconic song, “Jolene.”

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“Tonight, you called me an innovator and for that, I’m very grateful,” Beyoncé began. “Innovation starts with a dream. But then you have to execute that dream and that role can be very bumpy. Being an innovator is saying what everyone believes is impossible. Being an innovator often means being criticized, which often will test your mental strength. Being an innovator is leaning on faith, trusting that God will catch you and guide you.”

She went on to say she hopes that labels, radio stations and award shows would be “more open to the joy and liberation that comes from enjoying art with no preconceived notions.” Beyoncé then dedicated the award to all the innovators who have dedicated their lives “and their art to creating shifts.”

She concluded by naming a few Black artists like Rosetta Tharpe,  Linda Martell , Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Wonder and many more “who defied any label placed upon them.”

“Thank you for executing your dream so we could all follow,” she continued, thanking her team,  husband Jay-Z  and her  “three beautiful children” who inspire her.

Beyoncé has had the internet talking after dropping her “ Cowboy Carter ” album following the release of her highly successful album “ Renaissance ” in 2022.

“This ain’t a Country album,” the artists previously expressed. “This is a “Beyoncé” album. This is act ii COWBOY CARTER, and I am proud to share it with y’all!”

When released, “Cowboy Carter” included  guest appearances  by Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton,  Martell , Miley Cyrus and more. Beyoncé pays tribute to many past Black artists who influenced country music, as well  as the Chitlin’ Circuit .

An innovator indeed, when she released “Texas Hold ‘Em,” she became the first Black female artist to top the Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. And on “Cowboy Carter” release day, March 28, the record became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2024 so far.

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Beyonce Slams ‘Award Shows, Record Labels and Radio’ After ‘Preconceived’ Cowboy Carter Backlash

Beyoncé has called out “all the record labels, every radio station, every awards show” after facing backlash for her new country album, Cowboy Carter .

The 42-year-old’s foray into country music had been met with resistance from some country music fans and country music radio stations who ignored fan requests to play the songs on air.

Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider was also accused of racism when he compared the “Crazy in Love” singer’s ambitions to step into the new genre to a dog marking its territory, during an interview with conservative network One America News.

Black artists joining the country music scene has long been a controversial issue despite rhythm & blues, created by Black musicians, having inspired the genre.

Related: 8 Times Female Country Music Stars Stood Their Ground

But on Monday, April 1, Beyoncé hit back at the criticism by telling the audience at the iHeartRadio Music Awards that the music industry needs to become “more open to the joy and liberation that comes from enjoying art with no preconceived notions.”

The singer-songwriter, who last month became the first Black woman to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country chart with her catchy track “Texas Hold ‘Em,” appeared on-stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the show hosted by Ludacris , where she received the Innovator Award from soul legend Stevie Wonder .

Wearing a black leather suit with a matching cowboy hat, she thanked the 25-time Grammy winner for playing the harmonica on her version of Dolly Parton ’s 1973 hit “Jolene,” which features on Cowboy Carter .

“Whenever anyone asks me if there’s anyone that I could listen to for the rest of my life, it’s always you,” she told him, before dedicating her award to those who have “dedicated their lives and their art to creating shifts.”

She mentioned Sister Rosetta Tharpe , Tracy Chapman , Linda Martell , Prince , André 3000 , Tina Turner and Michael Jackson .

“[They] defied any label placed upon them, thank you for executing your dream so we could all follow,” she said.

Beyonce also thanked her husband, Jay-Z , describing him as “my rock, my best friend, I love you” and her “three beautiful children who continue to be my inspiration, my biggest blessing.”

The mother of three has also given Black women in the music industry — like Mickey Guyton, K. Michelle  and Tyla — their flowers.

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“With opportunity comes possibility. The possibilities are endless with you @Beyonce,” Guyton, 40, wrote via X on Friday, March 29, alongside photos of a bouquet of white flowers and a note from Bey herself.

“Thank you for opening doors for me, queen. Keep shining,” the note read, signed with “love and respect” from Beyoncé.

In 2020, Guyton became the first Black female artist to be nominated for Best Country Solo Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards for her song “Black Like Me.” That same year, she was the first Black female artist to perform at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

Related: List of 2024 iHeartRadio Awards Nominees and Winners

The gifts didn’t stop there, as musician K. Michelle also shared photos of her white flower bouquet via Instagram on Friday as well, with a similar note of support from the “16 Carriages” singer. “I love what you’ve been doing and I know it’s not easy to enter a new space,” Beyoncé wrote to Michelle, 42. “Sending you positivity and respect. I hope to meet you one day.”

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Beyoncé released Cowboy Carter on Friday. Her album features 27 tracks with features from Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, Dolly Parton, Linda Martell and Willie Nelson . Along with original tracks, she covered Parton’s “Jolene” and the Beatles’ “Blackbird.”

She kicked off her cowgirl era by dropping “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” following her Verizon commercial during Super Bowl LVIII. In the ad, Tony Hale challenged her to break the internet. After failing multiple times, Beyoncé said, “OK, they ready, drop the new music.”

Though Cowboy Carter is her first country album, it is the second installment of a three-part project following the release of Renaissance in 2022.

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List of 2024 iHeartRadio Awards Nominees and Winners

The i HeartRadio Music Awards are set to celebrate some of the biggest names in music - and the fun has already started.

The extravaganza is set for Monday, April 1, but the show started handing out awards even before host Ludacris could light up the stage of Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre. Early winners included OneRepublic , Tiesto and Olivia Rodrigo .

Taylor Swift leads the pack with the most nominations (nine), including Artist of the Year, Song of the Year and Pop Artist of the Year. Female artists dominated that last category, as Swift was nominated alongside Rodrigo, Doja Cat , Miley Cyrus and SZA .

SZA followed Swift by scoring eight nominations, as did Jelly Roll and  21 Savage.

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The night will include performances from Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson , Justin Timberlake , Tate McRae , TLC, Green Day and host Ludacris.

"The iHeartRadio Music Awards is a night where we celebrate the biggest artists and songs fans loved listening to on the radio all year long," said John Sykes , president of Entertainment Enterprises for iHeartMedia, when the nominees were announced. "We'll also share stories from the artists themselves about their hard-fought journeys to the top of the charts."

iHeartRadio Music Awards air on FOX Monday, April 1, at 8 p.m. ET.

Scroll down to see who is nominated and who won. Winners will be listed in bold. (Some awards don't appear to have nominees, just winners.)

Pop Album of the Year

Olivia Rodrigo, Guts

Rock Album of the Year

Metallica, 72 Seasons

Hip-Hop Album of the Year

Metro Boomin, Heroes & Villians

K-POP Album of the Year

Stray Kids, 5-Star

Alternative Album of the Year

Boy Genius,  The Record

Regional Mexican Album of the Year

Peso Pluma, Génesis

R&B Album of the Year

iHeartRadio Innovator

iHeartRadio Icon Award

iHeartRadio Landmark Award

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Song of the Year

Rema and Selena Gomez, "Calm Down"

Metro Boomin with The Weeknd and 21 Savage, "Creepin'"

Taylor Swift, "Cruel Summer"

Dua Lipa, "Dance The Night"

Luke Combs, "Fast Car"

Miley Cyrus, "Flowers"

WINNER: SZA, "Kill Bill"

Morgan Wallen, "Last Night

Doja Cat, "Paint the Town Red"

Olivia Rodrigo, "Vampire"

Pop Song of the Year

WINNER: Miley Cyrus, "Flowers"

SZA, "Kill Bill"

Pop Artist of the Year

Miley Cyrus

Olivia Rodrigo

WINNER: Taylor Swift

Artist of the Year

Morgan Wallen

Best Duo/Group of the Year

Fall Out Boy

Foo Fighters

Jonas Brothers

WINNER: OneRepublic

Best Collaboration

Lil Durk ft. J. Cole, "All My Life"

Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice, "Barbie World (with Aqua)"

PinkPantheress and Ice Spice, "Boy's a liar Pt.2" –

WINNER: Rema & Selena Gomez, "Calm Down"

Usher, Summer Walker and 21 Savage, "Good Good"

Drake and 21 Savage, "Rich Flex"

Kane Brown and Katelyn Brown, "Thank God"

GloRilla with Cardi B, "Tomorrow 2"

Karol G and Shakira, "TQG"

Best New Artist (Pop)

David Kushner

WINNER: Jelly Roll

Stephen Sanchez

Country Song of the Year:

Luke Combs, "Fast Car" –

WINNER: Lainey Wilson, "Heart Like A Truck"

Morgan Wallen, "Last Night"

Bailey Zimmerman, "Rock and A Hard Place"

Country Artist of the Year

Jason Aldean

Lainey Wilson

Best New Artist (Country)

Jackson Dean

Megan Moroney

Hip-Hop Song of the Year:

WINNER: Lil Durk ft. J. Cole, "All My Life"

Gunna, "fukumean"

Lil Uzi Vert, "Just Wanna Rock"

GloRilla with Cardi B, "Tomorrow 2"-

Hip-Hop Artist of the Year

WINNER: Drake

Best New Artist (Hip-Hop)

WINNER: Ice Spice

Lola Brooke

R&B Song of the Year

Metro Boomin with The Weeknd and 21 Savage, "Creepin'"-

Beyoncé, "CUFF IT"

Victoria Monét, "On My Mama" –

WINNER: SZA, "Snooze"

R&B Artist of the Year

Brent Faiyaz

Chris Brown

WINNER: SZA

Best African Music Artist

WINNER: Burna Boy

Best New Artist (R&B)

October London

WINNER: Victoria Monét

Alternative Song of the Year

Linkin Park, "Lost"

Fall Out Boy, "Love From The Other Side"

WINNER: Blink-182, "One More Time"

Foo Fighters, "Rescued"

Paramore, "This Is Why"

Alternative Artist of the Year

WINNER: Fall Out Boy

Best New Artist (Alt and Rock):

WINNER: Noah Kahan

Rock Song of the Year

Metallica, "72 Seasons"

Shinedown, "Dead Don't Die"-

WINNER: Linkin Park, "Lost"

Jelly Roll, "Need A Favor"

Rock Artist of the Year

WINNER: Foo Fighters

Dance Song of the Year

Tiësto ft. Tate McRae, "10:35"

David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Coi Leray, "Baby Don't Hurt Me"

Kylie Minogue, "Padam Padam"

Rita Ora ft. Fatboy Slim, "Praising You"

WINNER: Kenya Grace, "Strangers"

Dance Artist of the Year

Anabel Englund

David Guetta

Kylie Minogue

WINNER: Tiësto

Latin Pop / Urban Song of the Year

Manuel Turizo, "La Bachata"

Yng Lvcas and Peso Pluma, "La Bebe (remix)"

Myke Towers, "Lala"

WINNER: Shakira and Bizarrap, "Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53"

Latin Pop / Urban Artist of the Year

WINNER: Karol G

Manuel Turizo

Best New Artist (Latin Pop / Urban)

WINNER: Young Miko

Regional Mexican Song of the Year

Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera, "Bebe Dame"

WINNER: "Ella Baila Sola" – Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma

Carin León, "Indispensable"

Grupo Firme ft. Gerardo Coronel, "Qué Onda Perdida"

Carin León and Grupo Frontera, "Qué Vuelvas"

Regional Mexican Artist of the Year

El Fantasma

Grupo Frontera

WINNER: Peso Pluma

Best New Artist (Regional Mexican)

Gabito Ballesteros

Gerardo Coronel

K-pop Artist of the Year

WINNER: Jung Kook

K-pop Song of the Year

ATEEZ, "Bouncy (K-Hot Chilli Peppers)"

WINNER: FIFTY FIFTY, "Cupid (Twin Version)

Stray Kids, "S-Class"

Jung Kook ft. Latto, "Seven"

NewJeans, "Super Shy"

Best New Artist (K-pop)

BOYNEXTDOOR

WINNER: NewJeans

ZEROBASEONE

Producer of the Year

Kid Harpoon

Carter Lang

WINNER: Jack Antonoff

Metro Boomin

Songwriter of the Year

Jack Antonoff

Ashley Gorley

Michael Ross Pollack

Best Lyrics

Noah Kahan, "Dial Drunk"

Tate McRae, "Greedy"

Dua Lipa, "Houdini"

WINNER: Taylor Swift, "Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version)"

Jack Harlow, "Lovin On Me"

Sabrina Carpenter, "Nonsense"

Doja Cat, "Paint The Town Red"

Tyla, "Water"

Billie Eilish, "What Was I Made For?"

Best Music Video

Jung Kook ft. Jack Harlow, "3D"

JISOO, "FLOWER"

Bebe Rexha and David Guetta, "I'm Good (Blue)"

Yng Lvcas and Peso Pluma, "La Bebe (Remix)"

Olivia Rodrigo, "vampire"

Best Fan Army

WINNER: BTS Army

Social Star Award

Alex Warren

Flyana Boss

WINNER: Gracie Abrams

Jessie Murph

Natalie Jane

Favorite Tour Photographer

Alfredo Flores – Sabrina Carpenter

Anna Lee – Coldplay

Carianne Older – Charlie Puth

Catherine Powell – Kelsea Ballerini

Cynthia Parkhurst – Jonas Brothers

David Lehr – Morgan Wallen

WINNER: Joshua Halling – Louis Tomlinson

Mason Poole – Beyoncé

Matty Vogel – Misterwives

Ravie B – Adele

Ryan Fleming – 5 Seconds of Summer

Sanjay Parikh – Shinedown

Favorite On Screen

WINNER: "j-hope IN THE BOX"

"Love To Love You, Donna Summer"

Louis Tomlinson "All of Those Voices"

"Prince: The Final Secret"

"Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé"

"Save Me" Jelly Roll

"Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour"

"TLC Forever"

TikTok Bop of the Year

PinkPantheress and Ice Spice, "Boy's a liar Pt. 2"

Justine Skye, "Collide (Sped Up Remix)"

WINNER: Taylor Swift, "Cruel Summer"

FIFTY FIFTY, "Cupid (Twin Version)"

David Kushner, "Daylight"

Party Next Door, "Her Way (Sped Up)"

Mae Stephens, "If We Ever Broke Up"

Doja Cat, "Paint The Town Red"-

Doechii, "What It Is (Solo Version)"-

Favorite Tour Style

Carrie Underwood

Harry Styles

Sabrina Carpenter

Shania Twain

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Favorite Debut Album

Jung Kook, GOLDEN

Chlöe, In Pieces

WINNER: V, Layover

Megan Moroney, Lucky

Lauren Spencer Smith, Mirror

Raye, My 21st Century Blues

Bailey Zimmerman, Religiously

Reneé Rapp, Snow Angel

Tyler Hubbard, Tyler Hubbard

Country Album of the Year

Latin Album of the Year

Tour of the Year

Taylor Swift, The Eras Tour

iHeartRadio Most Played Titanium Award

Marci K. Campbell & Michael S. O’Malley Dissertation Awards

By Patricia Spillane

UNC Lineberger is seeking applicants for the  2024 Marci K. Campbell and Michael S. O’Malley Dissertation Awards  to recognize excellence in dissertation research focused on cancer and the population sciences. UNC graduate students in any of the population disciplines (epidemiology, nutrition, behavioral sciences, health services & outcomes research, psychology, etc.) are encouraged to apply.

Candidates who have graduated with their doctorate in the 2023-2024 academic year OR who plan to graduate in the 2024-2025 academic year are eligible to apply (i.e. graduation with doctorate that occurs at any time between June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2025). The faculty sponsor must be a cancer center member.

Two award winners will be selected from the applicant pool.  Award Amounts : $3,000.  Deadline : May 5, 2024, 5 p.m. More information can be found on the  award  webpage .

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