BALTIMORE, MD, January 13, 2025 – A groundbreaking new study in the INFORMS journal Transportation Science reveals the severe and far-reaching consequences of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on global food security. The research highlights an urgent need to address disruptions in the transportation of Ukrainian grains, which have caused dramatic price spikes and worsened food insecurity worldwide, particularly in vulnerable regions such as the Middle East and North Africa.
Cutting-edge chips, especially those designed to power emerging AI applications, tend to receive the most attention in the media and generate the most excitement. However, so-called “legacy” chips are just as important — if not more — to our daily lives.
January is National Blood Donor Month and, not coincidentally, a time when donations tend to ebb. Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood for serious injuries, childbirth, cancer treatments and more, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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INFORMS, the leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics, has awarded the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada the 2020 UPS George D. Smith Prize. The award recognizes excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of operations research and analytics.
CATONSVILLE, MD, May 6, 2020 – New research to be published in the INFORMS journal Management Science has found popular rideshare platforms exhibit racial and other biases that penalize under-represented minorities and others seeking to use their services.
The COVID-19 crisis has painfully highlighted the shortcomings of an almost absolute reliance on face-to-face medicine.
The expected shortage of mechanical ventilators needed to meet the demand from severely ill COVID-19 patients in the United States has prompted the federal government to lean on private industry to dramatically increase the supply. But ramping up production of complex medical equipment in manufacturing facilities configured for other products will take time that many patients don’t have. Research from Chicago Booth’s Dan Adelman suggests there may be another way to make up a portion of any shortfall in ventilator availability: share them between states.
With some of the nation's largest meatpacking plants still closed due to coronavirus outbreaks, some grocery stores are limiting sales, and one expert foresees higher prices and less of a variety of meats in New England
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