Moving Spirit Award for Chapters

2024 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

The Moving Spirit Award has been established to recognize outstanding geographic chapter volunteers or student chapter faculty advisors who have been "moving spirits" in their chapters.

The award will be signed by the Chapters/Fora Committee Chair. A letter of congratulations, in a form suitable for sending to each recipient's superior, will accompany those awards not delivered in person. The letter of congratulations should be brief but should include the following text, together with the formal citation (if space permits) or a brief explanation of the reason(s) for the award. The certificate will be presented at the national INFORMS meetings. Awards will be shipped to those recipients unable to receive the award at the national meeting.

An account of the award, citation, recipient, and qualifying service shall be published in OR/MS Today.

Nominations Due August 1,2024

Qualifications may be satisfied by a candidate leading efforts either to form a new chapter or to reactivate a dormant chapter; chairing the local organizing committee of a new or reactivated chapter; or through long-term involvement with various chapter activities, and services to the Institute or its predecessor societies on chapter committees and/or as a chapter officer.

Learn more about the application process.


Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Anita Bowers, San Francisco Bay Area
Monica Brussolo, University of Texas at Dallas
2023
Winner(s)
Jose Ramirez, Universidad Galileo
K Jo Min, Iowa State University
2020
Winner(s)
2017
Awardee(s)
2015
Awardee(s)
Daniel Reich, Naval Postgraduate School
2014
Awardee(s)
Jennifer Leong, Maryland Chapter
2013
Awardee(s)
Justin Yates, Texas A&M University Student Chapter
2012
Awardee(s)
Ina Markham, James Madison University
Stefan Karisch, The Boeing Company
2011
Awardee(s)
Sila Cetinkaya, Texas A&M University
2010
Awardee(s)
Sandra Eksioglu, Mississippi State University
William Carper, University of West Florida
2009
Awardee(s)
Jose Zayas-Castro, University of South Florida
Russell Wooten, Department of Homeland Security
2008
Awardee(s)
Hsing Luh, National Cheng Chi University, Dept. of Math Sciences
2007
Awardee(s)
Halit Uster, Texas A&M University, Industrial Engineering Dept.
Leon Schwartz, Informed Decisions Group
Nastaran Coleman, WINFORMS Chapter
2006
Awardee(s)
Jinho Lim, University of Houston
2005
Awardee(s)
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Isenberg School of Management
Gerald Evans, University of Louisville
Martha Centeno, Florida International University
Russ Vane, Augmentae Incorporated
Sanjay Mehrotra, Columbia University, IEOR Dept.
Susan Werbin, Werbin Associates - Executive Search Inc.
2004
Awardee(s)
Ignacy Kaliszewski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute
2003
Awardee(s)
Allen Holder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Donald Bates, Office of the Secretary of Defense
2002
Awardee(s)
Deepak Bammi, Bammi Consultants International
George Polak, Wright State University, ISOM Dept.
John W. Fowler, Arizona State University, Dept. of Industrial Engineering
2001
Awardee(s)
1998
Awardee(s)
Raymond L. Livingston, Jr., Teledyne Brown Engineering
1997
Awardee(s)
Steven L. Van Drew, Army Logistics Management College
1996
Awardee(s)
David F. Rogers, University of Cincinnati, Quantitative Analysis & Operations Management
1995
Awardee(s)
Reuven R. Levary, Saint Louis University, Dept. of Decision Science & MIS
1994
Awardee(s)
Armand B. Weiss, Associations International Inc.
Bruce W. Fowler, University of Alabama - Huntsville
Frances McNamee, University of California - Berkeley
G. Jack Theurer, G. Theurer Associates Inc.