Tech Topics
Melissa Bugg
Together at the Alumni House to talk about the professorship they established at Tech to honor their parents are siblings, left to right, Ron Nash, Deborah Nash Harris and Mike Nash.
Lessons Learned Nash children’s philanthropy instilled by their parents
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n the Nash family, Tech was a key element in two life lessons — the ability of education to change people’s lives and the responsibility to give back through volunteer work and philanthropy. Because of those lessons, the Institute now has a Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Pinar Keskinocak, co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, associate director of research in the Health Systems Institute and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, became the first Nash professor in July.
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The professorship was created and funded in honor of Harold R., EE 52, and Mary Anne Nash by the three of their four children who are graduates of Tech: Ron Nash, IE 70, of Dallas, a partner in InterWest Partners; Mike Nash, IE 74, of Concord, N.C., president of Akabis; and Deborah Nash Harris, IE 78, retired senior vice president of Microsoft Corp. Keskinocak’s research focuses on supply chain management, with an emphasis on resource allocation, and she is actively engaged in research and applications in health care and humanitarian logistics. The Nash family said Keskinocak’s groundbreaking
January/February 2011
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