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Submission Deadline: July 8, 2024 -11:59 pm eastern
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Gaver Award, applicants must:
- Be within 10 years of receiving their Ph.D. and be in a tenured, or tenure-track, academic appointment.
- Demonstrate creative and diverse work in the field of OR.
- Must be a member of INFORMS.
Application Process
To be eligible for the Gaver Award, the following material must be submitted:
- A self-reflection two-page description in English that provides evidence of creative and diverse (innovative) work in operations research, including successful collaboration with individuals outside the applicant’s home institution.
- Current CV (maximum four pages)
- Letter of support from the applicant’s Department Chair, which must also verify the year of the applicant’s Ph.D. and documentation of the applicant’s tenure-track academic appointment.
- One additional letter of support.
Judging Criteria
Judges will select the winning entry on the basis of:
- The individual's demonstrated creative and diverse contributions to OR/MS research. Examples could include publications, descriptions of impact of research to influence practice and/or policies, identification of new research directions via funded proposals or new partnerships.
- OR/MS research will be judged on three dimensions:
- Potential Impact of work to influence the body of knowledge, practice, and/or policies.
- Creativity – level of originality or novelty of the research
- Diversity of OR/MS research, which can be defined as diversity of research methodologies, and/or application domains
- OR/MS research will be judged on three dimensions:
- The individual’s demonstrated contributions to disseminating OR/MS knowledge. Examples could include teaching effectiveness, mentorship of students, dissemination of knowledge to practice, and development of innovative educational materials.
- Evidence of successful collaboration with scholars outside the individual’s home institution and potential for growth through collaboration.