Monday, July 30, 2012

Algebra -- Don't Knock It -- The Beauty and Usefulness of Math

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I am sure that many of you read the Op-Ed piece in yesterday's New York Times that is creating, if not a furor, then, at least, a lot o...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Crisis Management and Resilient Leaders

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People are starting to take notice. It is hard not to -- with record-breaking temperatures in the United States this summer, severe droug...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Best of Luck to the Olympians and What They Teach Us

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The day has arrived and the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be taking place tonight in London, England. I hope to ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Always Great to Hear from Former Students

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The summer is more than half over and, before we know it, it will be September, and students will be converging from different parts of the ...
Monday, July 16, 2012

When the Most Recent Time Feels as Good as the First Time -- Getting a Paper Accepted and Published

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I recently received an email message from a former doctoral student of mine that is the kind of message that is a keep-sake. It highlighted ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2012

An Operations Researcher to the Rescue as the Interim Dean of the School of Engineering at Columbia

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This past year, there has been major national coverage of various administrative academic dramas in the media, from the resignation and, sub...

No 4th of July Parade in Our Small Town -- How Sad

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For a decade now we have all come to enjoy what has become a tradition -- the 4th of July parade in our small town of Amherst, Massachusetts...