Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
Friday, March 13, 2026

Looking Forward to Giving a Distinguished Engineering Lecture at Purdue University

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I have been enjoying working on the presentation that I will be giving at Purdue University, after our mutual spring breaks next week. I was...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Tracking Down Who Was the First Female Full Professor in OR in the World and Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due

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In the past few days I have been quite busy and not just with the preparation of plenary talks for conferences this month and the writing of...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Marking the 30th Anniversary of the Passing of Dr. Stella Dafermos, the Second Female PhD in Operations Research in the World

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are hearing from relatives and friends, from far and wide, offering support during these extremely ...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

STEMing the Tide: Brilliant Lecture On How Female Experts and Peers Act as "Social Vaccines" to Protect Young Women's Self-Concept in STEM

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Yesterday, I had the distinct pleasure of attending a Distinguished Faculty Lecture at UMass Amherst given by the experimental social psycho...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Fabulous STEM Slam Organized by the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter

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I just returned from a very exciting event organized by the award-winning UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. The event was a STEM (Sc...
Monday, January 30, 2017

My Co-Authors Are From 23 Different Countries

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The past few days have been tumultuous with the new US President signing an Executive Order late on Friday proposing a 90-day suspension of ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Supernetworks and Critical Infrastructure at American Council of Engineering Companies Conference in Boston

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Several months ago I received an invitation from Beth Larkin, who is a Vice President at HNTB , and also a UMass Amherst Civil Engineering ...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

Eager to Start Work on our NSF EAGER Collaborative Research Project

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The good news came just as our 4 year National Science Foundation (NSF) project was coming to a close last month. That project: NeTS: Larg...
Monday, August 17, 2015

A Magical Wedding of a Brown University PhD and Colleague

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After spending a total of 8 weeks in various countries in Europe and South America conducting research and speaking at multiple conferences ...