Moving Spirit Award for Fora
Purpose of the Award
The Moving Spirit Award has been established to recognize outstanding forum volunteers who have been "moving spirits" in their forum.
The award will be an 11"x8" mounted certificate signed by the Chapters/Fora Committee Chair. A letter of congratulations, in a form suitable for sending to each recipient's superior, will accompany 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 Frank Ciarallo |
|---|---|
| Stefan Karisch, Jeppesen | |
| Ina Markham, James Madison University | |
| 2011 | Awardee Feryal Erhun , Stanford University |
| 2010 | Awardee Illya V. Hicks, Rice University |
| 2009 | Awardee Ana Muriel, University of Massachusetts Gal Raz, University of Virginia |
| 2008 | Awardee Eric Wolman, George Mason University |
| 2007 | Awardee Award Not Given This Year |
| 2006 | Awardee Award Not Given This Year |
| 2005 | Awardee Pinar Keskinocak, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial/Systems Engineering |
| 2004 | Awardee Erhan Erkut, Ozyegin University |

