Moving Spirit Award for Chapters
Purpose of the Award
The Moving Spirit Award has been established to recognize outstanding geographic chapter volunteers or student chapter faculty advisors who have been "moving spirits" in their chapters.
The award will be an 11x8 mounted plaque signed by the Chapters/Fora Committee Chair. A letter of congratulations, in a form suitable for sending to each recipient's superior, will accompany those awards not delivered in person. The letter of congratulations should be brief but should include the following text, together with the formal citation (if space permits) or a brief explanation of the reason(s) for the award. The certificate will be presented at the Chapter/Fora Committee Breakfast of the national INFORMS meetings. Awards will be shipped via UPS to those recipients unable to receive the award at the national meeting.
An account of the award, citation, recipient, and qualifying service shall be published in OR/MS Today.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | Awardee Stefan Karisch, Rocky Mountain Chapter |
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| Frank Ciarallo, Cincinnati-Dayton Chapter | |
| Ina Markham, Southeastern Chapter | |
| 2011 | Awardee Sila Cetinkaya, Texas A&M University |
| 2010 | Awardee William Carper, University of West Florida Sandra Eksioglu, Mississippi State University |
| 2009 |
Awardee
Russell Wooten,
Department of Homeland Security
Jose Zayas-Castro,
University of South Florida |
| 2008 | Awardee Hsing Luh, National Cheng Chi University, Dept. of Math Sciences |
| 2007 | Awardee Leon Schwartz, Informed Decisions Group Nastaran Coleman, WINFORMS Chapter Halit Uster, Texas A&M University, Industrial Engineering Dept. |
| 2006 | Awardee Jinho Lim, University of Houston |
| 2005 | Awardee Martha Ceneno, Florida International University Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Isenberg School of Management Sanjay Mehotra, Columbia University, IEOR Dept. Gerald Evans, University of Louisville Susan Werbin, Werbin Associates - Executive Search Inc. Russ Vane, Augmentae Incorporated |
| 2004 | Awardee Ignacy Kaliszewski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute |
| 2003 | Awardee Allen Holder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Donald Bates, Office of the Secretary of Defense |
| 2002 | Awardee Deepak Bammi, Bammi Consultants International John W. Fowler, Arizona State University, Dept. of Industrial Engineering George Polak, Wright State University, ISOM Dept. |
| 2001 | Awardee Cortez "Steve" Stephens |
| 1998 | Awardee Raymond L. Livingston, Jr., Teledyne Brown Engineering Douglas A. Samuelson, InfoLogix |
| 1997 | Awardee Steven L. Van Drew, Army Logistics Management College |
| 1996 | Awardee David F. Rogers, University of Cincinnati, Quantitative Analysis & Operations Management |
| 1995 | Awardee Reuven R. Levary, Saint Louis University, Dept. of Decision Science & MIS |
| 1994 | Awardee Armand B. Weiss, Associations International Inc. G. Jack Theurer, G. Theurer Associates Inc. Maury Schooff Bruce W. Fowler, University of Alabama - Huntsville Frances McNamee, University of California - Berkeley Joel E. Farrand Michael Grant |
| 1993 | Awardee Richard A. Stroud Thomas R. Bowe Thomas M. McKenna Charles M. Jones Appie van de Liefvoort |
