BALTIMORE, MD, April 7, 2025 – INFORMS, the world’s largest association for professionals and students in operations research (O.R.), AI, analytics and data science, announced it has awarded USA Cycling its 2025 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science, for its use of operations research (O.R.) and analytics in elite sports performance. With Project 4:05, USA Cycling transformed race strategy and athlete preparation, enabling the Women’s Team Pursuit to win gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.
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Rob Handfield, Bank of America Professor of Supply Chain Management with the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University, discusses the reasons behind the current worldwide shortage of ocean containers, and what carriers and manufacturers must do to solve it.
Illinois’ neighboring states all have Republican-controlled Houses and Senates. This state’s Democrat-controlled General Assembly is a Midwest anomaly. Given that we are now in the midst of redistricting season, which occurs once every decade, coinciding with the census, Democratic lawmakers in Illinois are salivating at the opportunity to redistrict to their advantage, with implications for the next 10 years.
Last year, as people fighting COVID-19 streamed into hospitals, demand for drugs to treat those patients skyrocketed.
On the second episode of Medically Necessary, reporter Matt Blois talks to Dr. Hui Zhao, a researcher at Penn State University whose work has focused on pharmaceutical supply chains.
States across the U.S. are reporting little waste of Covid-19 vaccine, in what appears to be evidence that careful handling of doses amid soaring demand is helping get almost every available shot into the arms of Americans.
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