At the end of every year, I highlight special achievements and activities of the past year of the Center Associates at the Virtual Center for Supernetworks that I founded 10 years ago at the Isenberg School of Management and that I continue to direct.
These are noted in a special Congratulations and Kudos page. What a great year 2011 was research-wise, teaching-wise, and professionally service-wise, despite tornadoes, Hurricane Irene, and the multiple day power outage after the freaky Halloween snowstorm in the Northeast.
From teaching awards at multiple universities, research and mentorship accolades, numerous conference presentations and panels (Transportation Research Board meeting in DC, AAAS meeting in DC, IEEE Supernetwork Conference in Shanghai, INTRIM in Montreal, NetGCoop in Paris, SAMSI in Raleigh, POMS in Reno, RSAI in Miami, and INFORMS in Charlotte), and plenary talks (China, France, and the US), and even help with conference organizing (SBP in Maryland and the Regional INFORMS Conference at UMass Amherst), and, of course, research publications and even commentaries, it is amazing what this great team, which now has members on 3 continents, has accomplished and has had a lot of fun throughout.
This year we were not only interviewed but even filmed in NYC.
It takes a great team to create synergies and to do important research from sustainable supply chains to humanitarian logistics and healthcare to dynamic networks from electric power to transportation. It also takes a great team to do what needs to be done from helping out with student chapters to bringing speakers in and just being supportive of others.
By working together so much more can be done (and it is much more enjoyable) than going at problems alone. For photos of some of our activities, click here.
Thanks for the support and best wishes!
Showing posts with label Good News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Good News. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Global Healthcare Supply Chains and Good Job News
I have been writing in this blog about our latest research on supply chain network design for critical needs products from vaccines to medicines and on hospital supply chains.
I was delighted to read in the Boston Globe that Sanofi-Aventis, one of the world's largest drug makers, is expanding its operations in Massachusetts and that this will mean more jobs -- jobs of importance and meaning.
According to the article: Sanofi-Aventis SA, is planning a $65 million expansion in Cambridge that will create about 300 jobs, making it the latest foreign pharmaceutical giant to invest in Massachusetts. The Paris-based drug maker is in the process of leasing space in Cambridgeport, where it will establish a joint headquarters for a new cancer division.
As you may recall (what a feeling of deja vu) last summer, at this time, the world was battling the H1N1 virus from Argentina (coincidentally, my most recent international trip in the summer of 2010) to China to the United States.
Sanofi-Aventis was one of only a handful of H1N1 vaccine producers and, given the low number of vaccine manufacturers, and the various challenges with the production of this vaccine, my research group began a study on multiproduct supply chain network design with applications to healthcare. Clearly, with fixed capacities, some of the vaccine producers had to switch from production of the annual flu vaccine to the challenging H1N1 vaccine.
We are pleased that the study has resulted in a paper/report, "Multiproduct Supply Chain Network Design with Applications to Healthcare," which, given the timeliness of the topic, we are making available to our readers through the Virtual Center for Supernetworks. The research allows pharmaceutical firms to redesign their supply chains in an optimal way to enable the cost-minimizing production of multiple vaccines and medicines with demand satisfaction.
Research at Business Schools is increasingly focusing not only on how wealth can be created but also how it can be done in a socially responsible way.
I was delighted to read in the Boston Globe that Sanofi-Aventis, one of the world's largest drug makers, is expanding its operations in Massachusetts and that this will mean more jobs -- jobs of importance and meaning.
According to the article: Sanofi-Aventis SA, is planning a $65 million expansion in Cambridge that will create about 300 jobs, making it the latest foreign pharmaceutical giant to invest in Massachusetts. The Paris-based drug maker is in the process of leasing space in Cambridgeport, where it will establish a joint headquarters for a new cancer division.
As you may recall (what a feeling of deja vu) last summer, at this time, the world was battling the H1N1 virus from Argentina (coincidentally, my most recent international trip in the summer of 2010) to China to the United States.
Sanofi-Aventis was one of only a handful of H1N1 vaccine producers and, given the low number of vaccine manufacturers, and the various challenges with the production of this vaccine, my research group began a study on multiproduct supply chain network design with applications to healthcare. Clearly, with fixed capacities, some of the vaccine producers had to switch from production of the annual flu vaccine to the challenging H1N1 vaccine.
We are pleased that the study has resulted in a paper/report, "Multiproduct Supply Chain Network Design with Applications to Healthcare," which, given the timeliness of the topic, we are making available to our readers through the Virtual Center for Supernetworks. The research allows pharmaceutical firms to redesign their supply chains in an optimal way to enable the cost-minimizing production of multiple vaccines and medicines with demand satisfaction.
Research at Business Schools is increasingly focusing not only on how wealth can be created but also how it can be done in a socially responsible way.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Good News Happens in "Threes"
My mother, from Eastern Europe, always used to say that "good news happens in 'threes'." Yesterday, was another datapoint for this insight. Sometimes, given the patience that we in academia have to have, I wish that the good news would spread out a bit and not bunch up so. In any event, we have A LOT to celebrate and I am so grateful for the following.
Good (Great) Morning!
We have now heard officially the following news:
1. Our UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter has been selected for the TOP chapter award -- summa cum laude (and this is from an elite group of chapters that include those at: Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, MIT, Michigan and 25 other chapters). The award will be given on October 13 at the San Diego Annual INFORMS Meeting. Needless to say, this is a great honor. Many thanks to the officers, members, faculty, and staff for their hard work in support of our chapter! We could not accomplish as much as we do without all of your support provided to our Speaker Series and numerous other professional, social, and educational activities!
2. In addition, Dr. Patrick Qiang, Management Science, who received his PhD from UMass Amherst in May 2009, has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Judith Liebman Award of
INFORMS. He will also be receiving this award at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Diego in October.
Patrick was a recipient of a UMass Graduate Fellowship for 2008-2009.
More info on the Judith Liebman Award and other INFORMS awards can be found on the ff. link: http://www.informs.org/index.php?c=36&kat=-+INFORMS+Prizes+and+Awards
Coincidentally, Judith Liebman was a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University while my dissertation advisor, Stella Dafermos, was also a student there. Both were pioneering females in operations research.
Dr. Qiang is now an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Pennsylvania State University Graduate School of Professional Studies; see:
http://www.sgps.psu.edu/FacultyProfile.aspx?id=3296
I nominated Patrick for this award, and I know how meaningful this award is.
This is the third time that the chapter has received a national award within the past three years. Also, Dr. Tina Wakolbinger, Management Science, PhD 2007, received the Judith Liebman Award in 2006. Both Dr. Qiang and Dr. Wakolbinger are Associates of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks.
3. Plus, yesterday, we were informed that the paper, An Integrated Framework for the Design of Optimal Web Banners, which was co-authored by three females, Professors Lili Hai and Lan Zhao of SUNY Old Westbury and me, has now been accepted in the journal Netnomics. Given the importance and relevance of web-based advertising, we are very excited about the acceptance of this paper, which is now in press in the above journal.
Good (Great) Morning!
We have now heard officially the following news:
1. Our UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter has been selected for the TOP chapter award -- summa cum laude (and this is from an elite group of chapters that include those at: Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, MIT, Michigan and 25 other chapters). The award will be given on October 13 at the San Diego Annual INFORMS Meeting. Needless to say, this is a great honor. Many thanks to the officers, members, faculty, and staff for their hard work in support of our chapter! We could not accomplish as much as we do without all of your support provided to our Speaker Series and numerous other professional, social, and educational activities!
2. In addition, Dr. Patrick Qiang, Management Science, who received his PhD from UMass Amherst in May 2009, has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Judith Liebman Award of
INFORMS. He will also be receiving this award at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Diego in October.
Patrick was a recipient of a UMass Graduate Fellowship for 2008-2009.
More info on the Judith Liebman Award and other INFORMS awards can be found on the ff. link: http://www.informs.org/index.php?c=36&kat=-+INFORMS+Prizes+and+Awards
Coincidentally, Judith Liebman was a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University while my dissertation advisor, Stella Dafermos, was also a student there. Both were pioneering females in operations research.
Dr. Qiang is now an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Pennsylvania State University Graduate School of Professional Studies; see:
http://www.sgps.psu.edu/FacultyProfile.aspx?id=3296
I nominated Patrick for this award, and I know how meaningful this award is.
This is the third time that the chapter has received a national award within the past three years. Also, Dr. Tina Wakolbinger, Management Science, PhD 2007, received the Judith Liebman Award in 2006. Both Dr. Qiang and Dr. Wakolbinger are Associates of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks.
3. Plus, yesterday, we were informed that the paper, An Integrated Framework for the Design of Optimal Web Banners, which was co-authored by three females, Professors Lili Hai and Lan Zhao of SUNY Old Westbury and me, has now been accepted in the journal Netnomics. Given the importance and relevance of web-based advertising, we are very excited about the acceptance of this paper, which is now in press in the above journal.
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