[Logprofs] Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition

[Chalam Narayanan]

Decision Sciences Institute
Announces the 2013 Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition

The purpose of the Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition is to encourage and publicize outstanding dissertation research by selecting and recognizing the best dissertations written in the past year in the decision sciences. The Elwood S. Buffa Dissertation Award will be presented to the competition winner at the annual meeting in Baltimore. Applicants for this award should submit their dissertation electronically in the required format directly to the Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition Coordinator by April 1, 2013.

We ask that you encourage qualified Ph.D. candidates in your program to apply.  To be considered eligible, a submission must meet the following criteria:

1.         The doctoral dissertation has to have been accepted by the degree-granting institution within the 2012 calendar year (i.e., between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2012).
2.         Finalists for the Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Competition must register and attend the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute in order to be eligible to win. Finalists should present a summary of their research during a special session at the annual meeting.

Submission should include a nominating letter from doctoral dissertation advisor and an executive summary of the dissertation. Detail instructions regarding the content and format of the submission are available at http://www.decisionsciences.org/annualmeeting/meetinginfo/dissertation.asp

List of the previous recipients of this award are available at http://www.decisionsciences.org/recognition/hall.asp#dda

Applications and supporting documentation must be received by April 1, 2013.
Please send your submissions or questions to
Arunachalam Narayanan
Department of Decision and Information Sciences
334 Melcher Hall
University of Houston
Houston, TX - 77204-6021
E-mail: anarayanan at bauer.uh.edu<mailto:anarayanan at bauer.uh.edu>
Thank you for your support and we look forward to your program's active participation.



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