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News & Awards

Tanker Deployment Research
James F. Campbell received a research grant for scheduling aerial refueling operations of tanker aircraft to support global deployment missions for the U.S. Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base. The project involves modeling and optimization of refueling flights for various types of tanker aircraft to support movements of fighter and bomber aircraft from the U.S. to overseas bases. Ph.D. student Mike Sciaroni is also working on the project, which runs from February – September 2007.

Conference Presentation
Two papers from UMSL's LOM department were presented at the 2007 INFORMS Conference on O.R. Practice in Vancouver, British Columbia, April 29-May 1, 2007. Only 27 select papers were accepted for this conference.
Professors L. Douglas Smith, Donald C. Sweeney II, and James F. Campbell presented “Modeling Alternative Operating Procedures and Infrastructural Improvements in the Upper Mississippi River Navigation System”.
Professor David Ronen presented "Tactical Store Delivery Planning".

New PhD in Logistics & Supply Chain Management
In Fall 2007, the College of Business Administration will expand its Ph.D. offerings to include a specialization in Logistics & Supply Chain Management. See the LSCM PhD for details. We anticipate admitting the first set of doctoral students in August 2007 and hiring two new faculty members in 2007-2008 in support of the program.

March Madness
On March 16, 2007 Joe Martinich will present a seminar entitled “Searching for Bias in March Madness” in the College of Business Administration’s seminar series. The seminar is from 11:00 – 12:15 pm in room 401 SSB.

Best Paper
In January 2007 a research paper titled “Decision Tools for Reducing Congestion at Locks on the Upper Mississippi River” by James F. Campbell, L. Douglas Smith, Donald C. Sweeney II, Ray Mundy and Robert M. Nauss received the best paper award at the 40th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences in the Decision Technologies and Service Sciences track. See the HICSS highlights page for details.

Panama Canal
In September 2006, David Ronen and Doug Smith visited the Panama Canal with representatives from SAS Institute as part of background research for a forthcoming proposal to develop a scheduling system for the Panama Canal Authority.