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INFORMS is again sponsoring a competition to encourage student research and practice that has societal impact. The
Doing Good with Good OR Student Competition will feature the most exciting work performed by students in partnership with public and private organizations that yields tangible and beneficial outcomes for individuals, communities, and organizations. Such work will be infused with OR/MS methods and could appeal to multiple disciplinary and application-area interests.
Submission Process:
• Nomination letter by the partner organization or a faculty member describing the societal impact of the work and the portion of the work (including the project duration) solely completed by the student entrant(s) during the time they were enrolled full-time in a degree-granting program.
• Two-or three-page summary document that describes what the entrants accomplished (focusing on the societal impact and the centrality of the operations research and management science tools used).
• 60-word abstract of the achievement
• Submissions should be e-mailed to either of the Prize Competition co-chairs listed below.
• Entrants will be expected to report on a project done in partnership with an organization that can certify that the results of the project have had, or are likely to have, a significant societal impact.
• Any work with positive societal impact that has been completed within the last 3 years (class project, thesis research, independent study, internship, voluntary work) is eligible unless it has already received an INFORMS award.
Please see this page online for complete details:
http://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes-Awards/Doing-Good-with-Good-OR/Doing-Good-with-Good-OR-Application-Process INFORMS must receive completed submissions for this competition by May 15, 2015. The finalists will be announced by June 30, 2015 and must submit no later than September 20, 2015 a full paper (maximum of 25 pages, double spaced, 12 point font) describing the project and its outcomes. The competition winner will be selected at the 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
2015 Committee Co-Chairs: Lisa Maillart Univ of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261 U.S.A.
e-mail:
maillart@pitt.edu Itai Ashlaghi Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02142 U.S.A.
e-mail:
iashlagi@mit.edu