Doing Good with Good OR - Student Paper Competition
Purpose of the Award
Doing Good with Good OR - Student Paper Competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding projects in the field of operations research and the management sciences conducted by a student or student group that have a significant societal impact.
The projects must have, or are likely to have, a significant societal impact, and operations research and management science methods and tools (broadly interpreted) must be central to the success of the projects described. "Societal impact" should be construed to mean an impact on individuals, communities and organizations that goes beyond that associated with a private-sector for-profit initiative. The projects might also strive to include innovation through theory, creative computational methods, and should address implementation challenges.
An account of the award, citation, recipient, and qualifying service shall be published in OR/MS Today.
Interfaces: Special issue on Humanitarian Applications: Doing Good with Good OR
Read the May-June 2011 special issue of Interfaces presenting seven papers that address some of the key problems from the humanitarian and public sectors while suggesting potential solutions and approaches.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | First Place Jonathan Helm, University of Michigan Greggory Schell, University of Michigan |
|---|---|
| Second Place Russell Harpring, University of Louisville | |
| Finalist Alex Mills, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | |
| Daphne Sniekers, University of Toronto | |
| Honorable Mention Mehmet Ayvaci, University of Wisconsin, Madison | |
| Amber Kunkel, Elizabeth Van Itallie, and Duo Wu, Rice University | |
| 2011 | First Place Turgay Ayer, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Second Place Hannah J. Wong, Massachusetts General Hospital | |
| Finalist Kathleen Hendrix, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Soroush Saghafian, University of Michigan | |
| Honorable Mention Sabina S. Alistar, Stanford University | |
| 2010 | First Place Jonathan Turner, Northwestern University |
| Second Place Rene Alvarenga, Georgia Institute of Technology Dani Slaton, Georgia Institute of Technology Jordan Stone, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Finalist Carleton Coffrin, Brown University | |
| Gregory Werker, University of British Columbia | |
| Jingyu Zhang, North Carolina State University | |
| Honorable Mention Justin Henriques, University of Virginia | |
| 2009 | First Place David Hutton, Stanford University |
| Finalist Murat Kurt, University of Pittsburgh | |
| Rachel Bullene, Virginia Commonwealth University Toni Sorrell, Virginia Commonwealth University James Springer, Virginia Commonwealth University Charles Stewart, Virginia Commonwealth University Yasser Tanvir, Virginia Commonwealth University | |
|
Honorable Mention
Faramroze G. Engineer,
University of Newcastle |
|
| Peter Frazier, Princeton University Diana Negoescu, Princeton University |
