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Dear Emerging Scholars Program Alumnus,

Greetings from POMS! We hope that this note finds you well and continuing on the path of ever greater scholarly pursuits!

We are happy to note that the Emerging Scholars Program (ESP) continues to be a resounding success year after year and we build upon the feedback received by alumni such as yourself. In order to make the ESP even better, the organizing committee is holding an "ESP Alumni Meet" in 2008. It will be held immediately after the regular ESP session, which is currently scheduled for Sunday, May 11 2007. The intent is to rekindle contact with past cohorts at ESP and forge new ties with Alumni from earlier/later years as well as with participants from this year's ESP. We expect to meet in a relaxed and informal setting. Please consider this note as an invitation to the Alumni Meet.

See below for the announcement for POMS' Emerging Economies Young Researcher Award (EEYRA). Please bring it to the attention of your Ph.D. students who plan to participate and present papers in POMS 2008 conference to be held in San Diego.

The Emerging Economies Young Researcher Award (EEYRA) has been created to establish institutional linkages to reach out to future scholars in emerging economies, and to encourage their development and connection to the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS).

To be eligible for the award, the student must be currently enrolled (at the time of the application) in a Ph.D. program in an Operations Management related field in a country with an emerging economy from one of the three regions Africa, Australasia, and Latin America.

See document below or go to www.poms.org to see more details.

Best wishes

Sushil
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Dr. Sushil Gupta
Executive Director - POMS
Professor, College of Business
Florida International University
RB 250, 11200 S.W. 8th Street
Miami, FL 33199
Phone: 305 348 1413
Fax: 305 348 4126
E-mail: poms@fiu.edu

The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) has instituted the Martin K. Starr Excellence in Production and Operations Management Practice Award to recognize contributions made to the field of Production and Operations Management (POM) by POM practitioners. It is an international award and is open to all POM practitioners from around the world.

POMS Board in its meeting in September, 2007 approved the creation of establishing the College of Behavioral Operations Management. Martin Starr was asked to lead the efforts to establish this college. Martin has suggested that POMS’ members who are interested in creating this college should meet in a session in the POMS 2008 conference in San Diego. Martin Starr, Bjorn Claes and Jo Beale are leading the initial efforts to bring the group together. Please see the call for discussion below and contact any one of them if you have any suggestions or questions.

Sushil Gupta
Executive Director - POMS