Recent Career Days have attracted more than 300 students who met with executives from two dozen leading corporations. The Ralph L. Day Marketing Dissertaion Award Fund was established through contributions from Professor Day's former doctoral students to honor his many years of devoted service to doctoral education at Indiana University. Each year, a cash award is made to the most deserving doctoral student at Indiana who is at the dissertation stage of the program. Since 1970, Indiana has hosted an annual symposium for doctoral students from Big 10 and other leading graduate programs.
Students prepare and deliver research papers on a wide range of current topics.
Faculty from Indiana as well as the other participating universities conduct panel sessions and a keynote address is made by the current editor of one of the leading marketing journals. The Prakash Nedungadi Memorial Lecture A leading faculty member is invited each year to give a seminar on marketing strategy as a memorial to Prakash Nedungadi, a cherished faculty colleague at Indiana. Funds to support this seminar series were donated to Indiana University by colleagues and former students. The DuPont seminar series brings distinguished speakers to Bloomington each year to share insights on the significant research issues in marketing. This series is funded by a generous grant from E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company.