Judith Liebman Award

2012 - Awardee
2012 Awardee: Mazen Hussein
2012 - Awardee
2012 Awardee: ; Cameron MacKenzie
2012 - Awardee
2012 Awardee: ; Shrikant Jarugumilli

Purpose of the Award

The Judith Liebman Award has been established to recognize outstanding student volunteers who have been "moving spirits" in their universities, their student chapters, and the Institute. The award will be an 11x8 mounted certificate signed by the Vice President for Chapters/Student Chapters/Fora, and a letter of congratulations, in a form suitable for sending to each recipient's department chair.

Past Awardees

2012 Awardee Mazen Hussein
Cameron MacKenzie
Shrikant Jarugumilli
2011 Awardee Changqing Cheng, Oklahoma State University
Laila Cure, University of South Florida
Anurag Verma, Texas A&M University
2010 Awardee Ambarish Acharya, Mississippi State University Kory Hedman, University of California-Berkeley Hoda Parvin, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
2009 Awardee Panitan Kewcharoenwong, Texas A&M University
Wilkistar Otieno, University of South Florida
Qiang "Patrick" Qiang, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
2008 Awardee Homarjun Agrahari, BNSF Railway, Service Design & Performance Ankur Jain, Purdue University Vishnuteja Nanduri, University of South Florida
2007 Awardee Wei-Chih Chiang, Louisiana Tech University, School of Accountancy Bilal Gokpinar, Northwestern University, Industrial Engineering & Management Science
2006 Awardee Burcu B. Keskin, University of Alabama Tina Wakolbinger, University of Memphis, Dept. of Marketing & Supply Chain
2005 Awardee Anita Patel, George Washington University Student Chapter
2004 Awardee Michele Pfund, Arizona State University Student Chapter Deepak Rajan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Anne Robinson, Cisco
Featured Award

Nominations due August 27, 2012

A candidate for the Judith Liebman Award must have been a "moving spirit" in his or her student chapter, leading efforts either to form a new student chapter or to reactivate a dormant chapter; leading a student chapter to perform extraordinary service to the Institute or to its University; or through vigorous involvement with various student chapter activities, and services to the Institute on chapter committees and/or as a chapter officer.

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About the Award/Namesake

Dr. Judith S. Liebman

Dr. Liebman served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Operations Research Society of America for eleven years, where she was secretary, vice president, president and past president. During that time she chaired the committee that established the first Doctoral Colloquium, as well as the Technical Sections Committee and the Long Range Planning Committee. She also served the Society as ORSA visiting Lecturer, chair of the Health Applications Section, and chair of the ORSA/TIMS Visiting Lecturer Committee. She was Omega Rho Distinguished Lecturer in 2003 at Atlanta.

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Committee

Nominations should be sent to:
Tracy Byrnes Cahall
INFORMS
7240 Parkway Drive, Suite 300
Hanover, Maryland 21076 U.S.A.
e-mail: tracy.cahall@informs.org
voice: +1 800-446-3676 x532
fax: +1 443-757-3515

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