Moving Spirit Award for Forums

2024 Winner(s)

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 signed by the Chapters and Forums 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 national INFORMS meetings. Awards will be shipped via UPS to those recipients unable to receive the award at the Annual Meeting.

An account of the award, citation, recipient, and qualifying service shall be published in OR/MS Today.

Nominations Due August 1, 2024

Qualifications may be satisfied by a candidate leading efforts either to form a new forum or revitalize an existing forum, or by long-term involvement with various forum activities, and services to the Institute on forum committees and/or as a forum officer.

Click here to learn more about the application process.


Past Awardees

2024
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Albert S. Berahas, Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG)
2023
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Banafsheh Behzad, California State University Long Beach
2020
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Dorothee Honhon, University of Texas at Dallas
2018
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Sarah Nurre, University of Arkansas
Shengfan Zhang, University of Arkansas
2015
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Dionne Aleman, University of Toronto
2014
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Laura Albert, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2013
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Burcu B. Keskin, University of Alabama
2012
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2011
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Feryal Erhun , Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
2010
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Illya V. Hicks, Rice University
2009
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Ana Muriel, University of Massachusetts
Gal Raz, University of Virginia
2008
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Eric Wolman, George Mason University
2007
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2006
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2005
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Pinar Keskinocak, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial/Systems Engineering
2004
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Erhan Erkut, Ozyegin University