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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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The Challenges Vaccine Stocks Face As They Try To Fight Delta Variant

The Challenges Vaccine Stocks Face As They Try To Fight Delta Variant

Investors Business Daily, August 27, 2021

Vaccine stocks Pfizer (PFE) and Moderna (MRNA) think they can get a handle on the coronavirus' delta variant. The two, along with other vaccine makers, have ambitious booster shot plans. But regardless of the outcome, experts say the Covid donnybrook is far from over.

Special edition episode on Covid-19: A conversation with Robert Hanfield

Special edition episode on Covid-19: A conversation with Robert Hanfield

Federal News Network, August 30, 2021

Join host Michael Keegan next week for Special Edition of The Business of Government Hour – COVID-19 and its Impact: a series on how the pandemic has transform government management and operations with guest Dr. Rob Handfield–discussing key steps in building national supply chain immunity.

The Intolerable Wait for a Kids’ Vaccine

The Intolerable Wait for a Kids’ Vaccine

The New York Times, August 30, 2021

Julie Swann, an engineer who studies health systems and models infectious disease at North Carolina State University, leads a team of researchers who recently tried to simulate how the Delta variant of the coronavirus could move through schools in various scenarios. The results, which The Washington Post published over the weekend, were alarming.

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