INFORMS Open Forum

Hello,

Please find this week's INFORMS news update. You can find media placements and news releases from 11/27-11/2. Please feel free to send me any new placements at asmith@informs.org. 


Kindly,

Ashley Smith

 

INFORMS in the News

 

Press Releases:

 

11/3:     How Much Impact Do Boycotts and Buycotts Actually Have on Brand Sales?

 

11/7:     New Audio Available for Media Use: Election Security Matters in the 2022 Midterms

 

11/9:     New Audio Available for Media Use: New CDC Guidelines on the Prescription of Opioids

 

11/16:   New Audio Available for Media Use: Smart Cities for America's Future

 

11/16:   Decision Science Digest: November 16, 2022

 

Media Placements:

 

Chip Shortage:

• Is the Chip Shortage Over? That Depends. (Industry Week)

 

Healthcare: 

• Adderall and amoxicillin shortages raise questions about transparency and accountability in Big Pharma (NBC News)

 

• Adderall and Amoxicillin shortage: What's going on and why (Yahoo! News)

 

• Recovery more robust for home health than nursing homes: health spending brief (McKnights Senior Living)

 

• One size doesn't fit all: AI approach to creating healthy personalized diets (Mirage)

 

• Shortage of common drugs compounds harsh flu, RSV season (The Baltimore Banner)

 

• World Health Organization takes aim at market as many still not getting vaccines they need (Chemistry World)

 

• Having one EHR vendor is best for patient care, study finds (Becker's Health IT)

 

• Sheldon Jacobson: US can respond to Ebola outbreak in Uganda by acting quickly, intelligently (Chicago Tribune)

 

• Urinary Tract Infections: A New Antibiotic May Be on the Way to Treat UTIs (Healthline)

 

Journal Articles:

• CO2 Shortage Hits the Beer World (The Beer Connoisseur)

 

• How Much Impact Do Boycotts And Buycotts Actually Have On Brand Sales? (Eurasia Review)

 

• Boycotts and buycotts movements on social media do not generate huge impact on brands (T4Mag)

 

Miscellaneous:

• The Club of Rome and the Rise of the "Predictive Modelling" Mafia – Matthew Ehret (Before It's News)

 

• Play It Again, Sam! (My Ample Life)

 

• Nearly 40 UCLA scholars are among most highly cited researchers in their fields (Mirage)

 

• Party for lauded TU/e ​​mathematics master (Cursor)

 

• Celebratory award ceremony for lauded mathematics master (Eindhoven University of Technology)

 

• TU/e's mathematics master celebrates award (Cursor)

 

• Meet Atlanta, Georgia's 5 Top CTO's in the Machine Learning Space (CTO)

 

• Breaking Good: Focused Work Breaks Boost Productivity (Medium)

• 10 Family Habits that Foster Lifelong Readers (Home/School/Life)

 

Politics:

• Fact check: False claim that mail-in voting is connected to bad actors, fraudulent ballots (USA Today)

 

• Fact check: False claim that mail-in voting is connected to bad actors, fraudulent ballots (Yahoo!)

 

• Election security: Simple mistakes outnumber fraud attempts, neither happen enough to affect election outcomes (ABC23 Bakersfield)

 

• Election security: Simple mistakes outnumber fraud attempts (Newsbreak)

 

• Election 2022 | Local registrar says Humboldt County prepared for Election Day disruptions (Times Standard)

 

• WBAL's Commitment 2022 Preview Special (WBAL Radio)

 

• Voter fraud and ballot security (SciLine)

 

Supply Chains:

• "European companies will have to scrutinize all the activities of their subcontractors and the subcontractors of their subcontractors" (Le Monde)

 

• Prioritizing Women Supply Chain Workers in ESG Efforts (Bloomberg Law)

 

• What's Stopping Companies from Pulling Supply Chains Out of China (Barron's)

 

• RFID in supply chain: 6 examples in use today (TechTarget)

 

• 'Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity': How a mass lockdown at the world's biggest iPhone factory is India's big chance to beat out China as Apple's favorite supplier (Fortune)

 

• Menu changes for many as Thanksgiving dinner costs surge (KENS5)

 

• Jeff Angelo: Shrinkflation Comes To Your Thanksgiving Table (WHO Radio 1040)

 

• Global supply chain could see some improvements, but food inflation continuing to gouge Canadians (CTV News)

 

Transportation:

• Sheldon H. Jacobson: TSA faces ethical limits in use of AI, but improvements must persist (TribLive)

 

• Sheldon Jacobson: TSA faces ethical limits in use of AI. But work to improve the technology must persist. (Chicago Tribune)

 

• Sheldon H. Jacobson: Supreme Court ruling on face masks is irrelevant (TribLive)

 

• Five Travel Myths Debunked for Thanksgiving Weekend (Henry Herald)

 

• How to avoid impending holiday travel disruptions (The Hill)

 

• TSA: Screening for box cutter 'contrary to standard operating procedure.' Suspect in court (Cincinnati Enquirer)

 

Weather:

• Preparing for next hurricane season should start now with supply-chain resiliency | Opinion (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

------------------------------
Ashley Smith
Public Relations Specialist
INFORMS
Catonsville MD
------------------------------