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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.

The POMS membership has elected new officers. The following individuals' terms begin at the POMS Board meeting to be held in San Diego, California, USA on May 9, 2008 and will end at the POMS Board meeting in the year indicated in parenthesis. President-Elect becomes president in the year indicated against his name.

• President Elect (2009): Wally Hopp, University of Michigan, USA
  
• Secretary (2010): Ozalp Ozer, Stanford University, USA
  
• VP Colleges (2011): Uday Apte, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
  
• VP Meetings (2011): Jim Gilbert, Rollins College, USA
  
• VP Industry (2011): Lee Cockerell, USA
  
• Regional VP Americas (2010): Afonso Fleury, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  
• Board Members (2010): Karen Donahue, University of Minnesota, USA
  
• Board Members (2010): Eric Johnson, Dartmouth College, USA
  
• Board Members (2010): Luk Van Wassenhove, INSEAD, France

The Q4 2007 issue of the POMS Chronicle, Vol. 14, No. 2, is now available for download. Back issues are available at the Chronicle webpage.

The Futurescape of Service Operations
Management – Addressing the Challenges
Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd May 2008
School of Business & Economics, University of Exeter, UK

The 2008 Annual EurOMA conference will be held in Groningen in The Netherlands on 15-18 June 2008.

The conference is organized jointly by EurOMA and the University of Groningen.

The theme this year is: Tradition and Innovation in Operations Management: Connecting Past and Future

The conference is preceded by the EurOMA Doctoral Seminar (13-14 June 2008).

Key Dates:
Conference
Abstract submission: 14 January 2008
Notification of acceptance: 18 February 2008
Full and final paper submission: 14 April 2008
Early registration deadline: 14 April 2008

Doctoral Seminar
Abstract submission (first year applicants): 14 January 2008
Notification of acceptance: 18 February 2008
Early registration deadline: 14 April 2008
Full paper submission: 16 May 2008

For more detailed information please consult the conference website: http://www.euroma2008.org/

We look forward to receive your registration and to welcome you in Groningen next year.

Kind regards on behalf of the organizing committee: Dirk Pieter van Donk and Taco van der Vaart, University of Groningen

European Operations Management Association, EurOMA-2008
15th Annual Conference, Groningen, The Netherlands, June 15-18, 2008

The Healthcare Operations Track is soliciting papers for presentation at EurOMA-2008 that contribute to the advancement of healthcare system design, operations, and improvement. Research on Operations in Healthcare can draw from diverse disciplines, such as operations and supply chain management, industrial engineering, information systems, strategy, performance management, quality, and technology management. Diverse research methods are also welcome, including empirical, analytical, numerical, and conceptual approaches.

Urban Wemmerlöv
Kress Family Wisconsin Distinguished Professor
Executive Director, the OTM Program and the Erdman Center for Operations and Technology Management
Wisconsin School of Business (Suite 4284, Grainger Hall)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
975 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Ph: 608-262-0305; Fax: 608-263-3142
www.bus.wisc.edu/erdman

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

Nominations, including self-nominations, are invited for new Fellows of POMS.

Designation as a POMS Fellow is the most prestigious honor awarded by our Society, and is given for life. It is intended to recognize POMS members who have made exceptional intellectual contributions to our profession and Society through their research and teaching. Although loyal service to the Society, in administrative, elected, or editorial assignments, is not by itself a sufficient qualification for this award, it can strengthen the case of a member who has also become a thought-leader in our field. To be eligible, a candidate must have been a member of POMS during four out of the previous five years.

Nominations, including self nominations, are invited for the following positions for POMS’ elections – 2008:

President Elect – one year
VP Meetings – three years
VP Colleges – three years
VP Industry – three years
Regional VP Americas – three years
Secretary – two years
Board Member – 2 years
Board Member – 2 years
Board Member – 2 years

July 19, 2007 -- After almost a year of effort by many people, we're happy to announce that the newly redesigned POMS.org website, which you're looking at right now, has been launched. The new site is based on a web-based content management system that allows a new online editorial board (see below) to manage the website faster and more easily. It is also more technically scalable, which should provide improved responsiveness and up-time at lower operating costs.

However, the launch has not been without its hiccups (we apologize for the downtime); getting the new host to complete our technical setup took a bit longer than we expected. We should be in full production mode by the end of July.

In the meantime, please explore the site, familiarize yourself with the new navigation structure, and try out the search function (upper right on every page). We will be tweaking the menus in the next few months, but layout changes should be minimal. If you have comments or suggestions, please send them to Craig Froehle, Online Editor-in-Chief.

The new POMS.org Online Editorial Board consists of:

Editor-in-Chief: Craig Froehle, University of Cincinnati

Online Editors:
    - Renu Agarwal, Macquarie University
    - Paulo Goncalves, MIT
    - Greg Heim, Texas A&M
    - Changyue Luo, New Mexico Institute of Technology
    - Bo van der Rhee, Nyenrode Business University

Rollins College announces Linda G. Sprague as new Thomas J. Petters Distinguished Professor of International Business

Rollins College is pleased to announce that on September 1, Dr. Linda G. Sprague will become the Thomas J. Petters Distinguished Professor of International Business. She will play a leadership role in developing and supporting the Rollins China Center by engaging the global academic and local business communities in Chinese business.

Based on the POMS elections, the following people have been elected for various positions. Their terms begin at the POMS Board meeting to be held in Dallas, USA on May 4, 2007 and will end at the POMS Board meeting in the year indicated in parenthesis. President-Elect becomes president in the year indicated against her name.

President Elect (2008): Cheryl Gaimon, Georgia Tech, USA

Vice President Finance (2010): Art Hill, University of Minnesota, USA

VP Member Activities (2010): Daniel Guide, Penn State University, USA

Regional VP Australasia (2009): Chung Yee Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong

Board Member (2009): Seungjin Whang, Stanford University, USA

Board Member (2009): Nada Sanders, Texas Christian University, USA