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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are excited to begin a new cycle of IISE OR Division awards. A brief summary of the awards has been provided below. Especially for those considering applying for the Undergraduate Research Dissemination Award, please submit the abstract
before <b>November 17, 2023. </b>For other two awards, please stay tuned. We will announce the detailed dates later.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">IISE OR Teaching Award</span>: This award recognizes excellence in teaching operations research and will be presented at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2024. The anticipated application
deadline for this award is <b>February, 2024 (date TBD)</b>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Undergraduate Research Dissemination Award</span>: This award recognizes outstanding undergraduate research completed in OR. Applicants must submit a presentation abstract to the 2024
IISE Annual Conference & Expo before the <b>November 17, 2023,</b> deadline. Applicants must also prepare a paper (formatted according to IISE Annual Conference guidelines) to be submitted to the competition in
<b>January 2024</b> and present at the 2024 IISE Annual Conference & Expo (May 18-21, 2024; Montreal, Canada).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Student Case Competition</span>: This award recognizes a team of students for excellence in modeling and solving a problem faced by a real-world organization. The details of this competition
will be announced in the coming months.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Weijun Xie and Dr. Sharan Srinivas</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Award Coordinators</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Weijun Xie</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Coca-Cola Foundation Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Georgia Institute of Technology</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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