Prof. Dahl takes Canada’s top honour for teaching Senior Associate Dean and Professor Darren Dahl was announced on February 8 as one of the 10 Canadian professors to receive the 2013 3M National Teaching Fellows Award—the country’s most prestigious prize for teaching excellence. The Fellowship, established by 3M Canada and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, recognizes exceptional achievements and contributions by teachers and Darren Dahl scholars across Canada. Dahl’s selection for the award was motivated by his ability to “awaken students’ imaginations” through engaging and often unconventional teaching strategies that allow for the exploration of different approaches to business. This newest accolade comes quickly on the heels of an announcement on February 5 that Dahl had been named to the short list for the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Business Professor of the Year Award, making the final four of a pool of 222 nominated professors from 31 universities around the world. ■
COE research featured at major conference Research from the Centre for Operations Excellence (COE) and the Operations and Logistics Division (OPLOG) was featured at the Industrial Engineering Students National Conference in Peru, a prominent international conference, in August. One of the plenary speakers was Assistant Professor and COE Faculty Advisor, Steven Shechter, who discussed several healthcare-related projects conducted by students of the Steven Shechter Master of Management in Operations Research program (MMOR) and OPLOG PhD students. MMOR alumna Valerie Quevedo was among the organizers of the conference, which attracted more than 2,000 participants from Peru, Ecuador and Chile. ■
Assistant Professor receives best paper award On September 29, the Northern Finance Association awarded Sauder Assistant Professor Jason Chen their Chartered Business Valuators Award for the Best Paper on Business Valuation. The Northern Finance
Association consists of finance academics from Canada and around the world. In his paper, “Do Cash Flows of Growth Stocks Really Grow Faster?,” Chen questions a commonly held belief that growth stocks have substantially higher cash-flow growth rate compared to value stocks. Chen’s research shows this assumption is not actually supported by data, and that often the opposite case is true. ■
Jason Chen
INFORMS inducts Professor Daniel Granot On October 11, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Services (INFORMS) announced that Professor Daniel Granot will receive the annual INFORMS Fellows Award. Granot was being recognized for his “groundbreaking research that has opened significant pathways for inquiry within the fields of cooperative games and supply Daniel Granot chain management.” INFORMS is the leading international association for professionals in advanced analytics, with 10,000 members, including a number of Nobel Prize laureates. ■
Associate Professor receives Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal On February 26, Sauder Associate Professor James Tansey was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal by Premier Christy Clark at a ceremony at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria. As an internationally recognized expert on sustainability and carbon offsets, Tansey received the medal for promoting sustainable practices in business. The Diamond Jubilee Medal James Tansey was created to mark Queen Elizabeth’s 60th anniversary of her accession to the Throne as Queen. ■
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