Amiya K. Chakravarty has joined the College of Business at Northeastern Uni-versity as the Philip McDonald Chair and professor of operations and technology management. Northeastern has made a major commitment to develop graduate research and teaching programs in supply chain management. Previously, Chakravarty held the A. B. Freeman Chair at the School of Business, Tulane University.

James S. Dyer, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, was presented the 2006 MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award from the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision-Making. The award is "the highest distinction that the Society bestows upon a researcher who, over his career, has established a record of creativity to the extent that the field of MCDM would not exist in its current form without the far-reaching contributions from this distinguished scholar." The award was announced at the 18th International Conference on MCDM in Chania, Greece.

M. Murat Köksalan, a professor at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, received the MCDM Gold Medal, "the highest honor that the Society bestows upon a scholar who, over a distinguished career, has devoted much of his talent, time and energy to advancing the field of MCDM, and who has markedly contributed to the theory, methodology and practice of MCDM."

Carlos Romero, a professor at Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, received the Georg Cantor Award, "the highest form of recognition that the Society bestows upon a researcher who, over his distinguished career, has personified the spirit of independent inquiry and whose many innovative ideas and achievements are decidedly reflected in the theory, methodology and current practices of MCDM."

Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, participated in the Fudan International Management Science Forum at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Nagurney gave a keynote speech, "Supernetworks: Management Science in the 21st Century," that was simultaneously translated from English to Chinese. Nagurney was one of only three Westerners — and the only woman — invited to give keynote speeches at the two-day event. During the trip, Nagurney met the mayor of Shanghai, Han Zheng, as well as Cheng Siwei, the vice chairman of the National People's Congress of China. Nagurney also helped judge the Fudan Premium Prize in Management Science competition and participated in a workshop on supernetworks organized by Daoli Zhu, the chair of the Management Science Department at Fudan University.

John-Paul Clarke, an associate professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering and director of the Air Transportation Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology, was selected as a lecturer for the Armstrong Endowment for Young Engineers Gilbreth Lectures series. Clarke is schedule to make a presentation at NAE's 2006 annual meeting in October on "Air Transportation's Global Impact." The lecture series was established as a means of recognizing outstanding young engineers and making them more visible to the NAE membership.



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