Members of our department have been featured in the media over the past year, from news stories written about Dr. Liang Xu's research on the FDA drug approval process to Professor Shawntell Kroese's participation in the Rail Innovation Day Webinar. These, and many more, are linked below.
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The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) invited Dr. Özgür Araz to contribute to the journal with an editorial article. Araz serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for AJPH, one of the most prestigious journals in health care and medicine. He commented on an article that presented the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of community-supported agriculture based interventions for low income U.S. adults with chronic diseases. In the article titled “Community-Supported Agriculture: Systems Thinking in Action,” Araz called for systems thinking highlighting the value of simulation-based analytical methods in identifying sustainable policies.
You can read the article here: https://go.unl.edu/58jp
Dr. Araz also accepted the invitation to serve as an Associate Editor for the IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering Journal. He will serve as the Area Editor of Public Health Informatics in Health Systems journal (an official journal of The Operational Research Society - The OR Society).
The University of Nebraska Foundation featured Dr. Araz and his research on pandemics in their magazine published in July 2020. The full article can be read here: https://nufoundation.org/when-theory-becomes-reality/
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Professor Shawntell Kroese participated in the "Plug and Play" Rail Innovation Day Webinar in April 2020. As former Union Pacific Vice President, she led a Fireside Chat. The webinar was joined by 10 top-tier startups to pitch their solutions to rail-related corporations from around the world.
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Dr. David Olson was featured in numerous journals and books, from those published by Springer to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems. The list below also features work not yet published.
• D.L. Olson, “A review of supply chain data mining publications,” Journal of Supply Chain Management Science (to be published).
https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/jscms/article/view/955
• D. Wu, D.L. Olson, S. Wang, “Finance-operations interface mechanism and models,” Omega 88, 2019, A1-A3
• D.L. Olson and D.D. Wu, Enterprise Risk Management Models 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Springer, 2020.
• D.L. Olson, Core Concepts of Project Management, Business Expert Press, 2020.
• D.L. Olson, Quantitative Tools of Project Management, Business Expert Press, 2020.
• D.L. Olson, Z. Bochek, “Case study of SAP implementation in a corporation network,” International Journal of Services and Operations Management 35(2), 2020, 189-206.
• D.L. Olson, Risk aspects of knowledge management,” Frontiers of Engineering Management (to be published, 2020).
• D. Wu, D. Olson, “Financing the newsvendor with preferential credit: Bank vs manufacturer,” International Journal of Production Research (to be published).
• Guest editor (with Y. Yuan, F.-Y. Wang, C. Rong, A. Stavrou, J. Zhang, Q. Tang, F. Baldimtsi, L.T. Yang, D. Wu, S. Wang, J.H. Lambert), “Special issue on blockchain and economic knowledge automation,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (to be published, 2020).
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Dr. Leon Xu's research, "Large Number of Drug Manufacturers Fail to Complete FDA’s Accelerated Approval Program" is focused on the FDA drug approval process. The study shows that pharmaceutical companies have failed to comply with federal policies that could speed up the approval of potentially life-saving prescription drugs and was mentioned by multiple media outlets:
• https://www.informs.org/About-INFORMS/News-Room/Press-Releases/New-Research-Reports-Over-One-third-of-Pre-Approved-Prescription-Drugs-Have-Not-Completed-the-FDA-Approval-Process.
• https://gmpnews.net/2019/08/large-number-of-drug-manufacturers-fail-to-complete-fdas-accelerated-approval-program/
• https://www.breitbart.com/news/study-one-third-of-pre-approved-drugs-has-not-finished-fda-approval-process/
• https://scienmag.com/one-third-of-pre-approved-prescription-drugs-have-not-completed-the-fda-approval-process/
• https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/08/27/Study-One-third-of-pre-approved-drugs-has-not-finished-FDA-approval-process/4791566925797/
Dr. Xu was also interviewed by Lincoln's local news on the impact of COVID-19. The story, called "Global Economy Hinges on World-Wide Supply Chains as COVID-19 Continues" can be found here:
https://www.klin.com/2020/03/24/global-economy-hinges-on-world-wide-supply-chains-as-covid-19-continues/