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Hello,

Please find this week's INFORMS news update. You can find media placements and news releases from 9/19-9/2. Please feel free to send me any new placements at asmith@informs.org. 


Kindly,

Ashley Smith

 

INFORMS in the News

 

Press Releases:

 

9/19:     New Audio Available for Media Use: Post-pandemic Workforce Enters a New Era of Hybrid Work and Team Optimization

 

Media Placements:

 

Healthcare:

• KHN Morning Briefing (Kaiser Health News)
  September 15, 2022

Sheldon Jacobson

 

• Sheldon Jacobson and Janet Jokela: Will vaccine fatigue affect how many people get the bivalent booster? (Chicago Tribune)

 

Journal Articles:

• Online Puzzle Wordle MIT Study Says This Is The Best Wordle Starter Word Do You Agree (BigYack.com)

 

• Forget Bill Gates' strategy: This is the best Wordle starting word according to MIT researchers (CNBC)

 

Miscellaneous: 

• Charitable Campaign is Underway (Georgia Tech)

 

• A new strategy to speed up cold case investigations (Newslanes)

 

Politics:

• Service sector 'shrinkflation' has some benefits (The Hill)

 

• Danville and Chicago's South Side squeezed into 2nd congressional district by gerrymandering (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

 

• The Electoral College Needs to Go…Just Not Right Now (WLS 890AM)

 

• When (not whether) to eliminate the Electoral College? (MSN)

 

Supply Chains:

• It's Time to Rethink Supply Chain Risk Management (Ivalua)

 

• Making EVs without China's supply chain is hard, but doable (The Express)

 

• Navigating Supply Chain Challenges Webinar (WRAL)

 

• Repairing the Global Supply Chain (Yale University)

 

• Opinion: Making EVs without China's supply chain is hard, but not impossible-3 supply chain experts outline a strategy (Marketwatch)

 

Transportation:

• Travel: Holiday airfare prices will wallop wallets this year (Yahoo!)

 

• Potential railroad strike shows fragility of nation's supply chain (The Center Square)

 

• Potential Railroad Strike Shows Fragility of Nation's Supply Chain (Railfanning.org)

 

• Potential railroad strike shows fragility of nation's supply chain (The McDuffie Progress)

 

• The Railroad Strike Highlights A Forgotten Part Of The Supply Chain: Workers (Forbes)

 

• S. Railroad Strike Averted as Tentative Deal Is Reached (The Wall Street Journal)

 

• Rail strike impact on road freight would be 'quick,' 'immediate' (CCJ)

 

• Supply chain concerns grow amid possible railroad strike (Newsbreak)

 

• Experts Predict What 2022 Holiday Travel Will Be Like (Huffington Post)

 

Work Force:

• Remote control: the rise of the hybrid CEO (Raconteur)

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Ashley Smith
Public Relations Specialist
INFORMS
Catonsville MD
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