2007 Outstanding Faculty Recognition: Scholarship & Creative Activity
Scholarship that results in the highest quality, peer reviewed journal articles.
Over the past three years Professor Rahul Bhaskar has written seven research papers including one which appeared in the Communications of the ACM. Additionally, he received a grant of $100,000 from the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation (funded by the United States Department of Homeland Security) to develop cyber incident response processes, systems and organization for Wisconsin Law Enforcement.
Over the past three years, Professor Tammy Drezner has published (or had accepted for publication) 13 articles in journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and Naval Research Logistics. Of the 13 articles four were solely authored by her. Her research has focused on location issues, marketing issues, and genetic algorithms.
Over the past three years Professor Zvi Drezner has written over thirtyfive refereed journal articles in some of the most prestigious journals in the field of management science. These include articles in Operations Research, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, and Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation. Dr. Drezner’s research focuses on the areas of location, search methods, and algorithms. In 2005 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Location Chapter in INFORMS. This award is given once every three years to the most prominent researcher in the world working in the field of location analysis.
Professor George A. Marcoulides in the last few years has published 2 books, 1 book chapter, 18 articles in refereed scholarly journals, 3 book reviews, and presented more 20 papers and workshops at national and international conferences. In 2005, his contributions received the Decision Sciences Institute Distinguished Research Award. He also received the CBE Spring 2006 Faculty Scholar Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research. He continues to serve as Editor of the Structural Equation Modeling Journal, Editor of the LEA Quantitative Methodology Book Series, and on the editorial board of numerous other scholarly journals.
Over the past three years Professor Samuel Yang has written eleven journal articles, one book, and one book chapter. Additionally, he presented research papers at two conferences. His research has appeared in such prestigious journals as IEEE Technology and Society, Telecommunications Policy, and, Communications of the AIS. His scholarly activities have focused on the areas of telecommunications systems, wireless networking, RFID systems, and optical networks. He has won the college’s outstanding faculty award.
