June 1999 Nicholson Student Paper Competition Bertrand Guenin and Constantinos Maglaras shared first-place honors in the 1999 George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition. Award Committee Chairman Nicholas Hall made the presentations at the INFORMS meeting in Cincinnati. The competition aims to recognize outstanding work by students in the field of operations research and the management sciences. Guenin, a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon and now on the faculty at Georgia Tech, was honored for his paper entitled, "A Characterization of Weakly Bipartite Graphs." Maglaras, who did his dissertation work at Stanford before joining the faculty at Columbia University, was recognized for his paper, "Discrete-Review Policies for Scheduling Stochastic Networks: Trajectory Tracking and Fluid-Scale Asymptotic Optimality." Wen Zhao of the Univ. of Pennsylvania received honorable mention. Table of Contents OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 1999 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 2555 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 299, Atlanta, GA 30339 USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com URL: http://www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 1999 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.