Front Page Coverage of Our Panel on Ukraine

Last Friday, we had our panel on Ukraine, which included both faculty from the Isenberg School (Dr. Bogdan Prokopovych) and Amherst College (Drs. Nataliia Bychkova and Myroslav Kryven) as well as recently arrived exchange students (Alisa Mikhieieva, Olesia Rozhanska, and Yuliia Zaitseva) from the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in Ukraine. The panel was to mark the 4th anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The event took place at the Isenberg School of Management with help from the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter and its President, Samira Samadi. It was an honor to moderate the panel.

Below is a collage of photos from the event with the announcement.

In the audience was Sam Gelinas, who is a journalist for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, DHG, and, today (after so much that has transpired in the world since our panel), his article on the panel was published on the front page of the DHG.

The link to the article is: https://gazettenet.com/2026/03/02/ukrainians-reflect-on-war-four-years-on/

I was very busy with teaching all day today, and now a heavy snow is falling, but Professor Ladimer S. Nagurney kindly went to purchase 3 hardcopies of the DHG and then delivered them to the exchange students from Ukraine.  It's not every day that one makes the front page of the newspaper!

And for additional photos and discussions, please visit the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter website for their writeup on the event: https://websites.umass.edu/umassinf/2026/03/02/panel-discussion-faculty-and-student-perspectives-on-the-4th-anniversary-of-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine-2/

I am very grateful for all the support.