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USA Cycling Awarded the 2025 INFORMS Edelman Award for Data-Driven Olympic Gold Strategy
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 7, 2025 – INFORMS, the world’s largest association for professionals and students in operations research (O.R.), AI, analytics and data science, announced it has awarded USA Cycling its 2025 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science, for its use of operations research (O.R.) and analytics in elite sports performance. With Project 4:05, USA Cycling transformed race strategy and athlete preparation, enabling the Women’s Team Pursuit to win gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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Haslam College of Business: Accelerating Data Science with a Cutting-Edge Business Analytics Program

Haslam College of Business: Accelerating Data Science with a Cutting-Edge Business Analytics Program

Analytics Insight, July 15, 2019

Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence have moved from emerging technologies to become core tools in organizations today. These technologies enable enterprises to dive deeper into ever-growing volume of data to solve multifaceted business problems. In an interview with Analytics Insight, Melissa Bowers, PhD, Director of the Master’s in Business Analytics (MSBA) program at the Haslam College of Business, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville shares how the college offers a cutting-edge business analytics program to train the next generation of data scientists for today’s forward-thinking organizations.

Algorithms: Not Evil, Helpful

Algorithms: Not Evil, Helpful

Inside Big Data, July 9, 2019

Whether or not you have an analytics background, in this digital age algorithms are everywhere… in how ambulances determine their route to the hospital, in elections… you name it.

The Persuasion Wars

The Persuasion Wars

PRX Radio, June 24, 2019

INFORMS member Dean Hartley discusses his article "Persuasion Wars, Part 1," featured in the June issue of OR/MS Today magazine, which explores the history of the science of persuasion.

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