BALTIMORE, MD, April 30, 2025 – As droughts worsen and water shortages hit communities worldwide, a new study in the INFORMS journal Decision Analysis has uncovered a smarter way to get people to save water – without breaking the bank.
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You may not realize it, but a shocking amount of science and technology is behind every can of soup. INFORMS member Joseph Byrum, senior R&D and strategic marketing executive with Syngenta explores the extensive research that goes into plant genetics and breeding to canning to create a 'simple' can of tomato soup.
INFORMS member Jennifer Pazour, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been named a recipient of a 2016 Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship, a program that funds activities to enhance oil system safety and the protection of human health and the environment in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S.
CATONSVILLE, MD, October 20, 2016 – As businesses, industries, and other organizations exponentially increase their use of analytics to improve their operations and performance, they face additional challenges of identifying, recruiting and retaining the very best analytics talent.
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