COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Amna Kirmani, professor of marketing for the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, has been elected to serve as president the Association of Consumer Research, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Kirmani, director of Smith’s PhD Programs, will guide the 1,700-member association and its mission to advance consumer research and facilitate the exchange of scholarly information among members of academia, industry and government worldwide.