Three Universities Selected as Finalists for the 2020 INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Prize

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CATONSVILLE, MD, January 28, 2020 – INFORMS, the leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics, has selected three finalists for the 2020 UPS George D. Smith Prize, which recognizes excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of operations research and analytics.

The finalists for the 2020 Smith Prize are:

Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina 

Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada  

Department of Information and Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

The winner will be announced on April 27 at the 2020 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research in Denver, Colorado.

Named in honor of the late UPS Chief Executive Officer – a champion of operations researchers at a leading Fortune 500 corporation – the UPS George D. Smith Prize was created in the spirit of strengthening ties between industry and the schools of higher education that graduate young practitioners of operations research. The prize is awarded to an academic department or program for effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research or analytics.

Past recipients of the award include the University of Cincinnati; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Air Force Academy; H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University; Saunders School of Business at University of British Columbia – Center for Operations Excellence; MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO); Naval Postgraduate School; and Tauber Institute for Global Operations at the University of Michigan.

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Ashley Smith

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