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Sauder professor receives health research award Professor Frieda Granot named one of Canada’s most powerful women Dr. Frieda Granot, Advisory Council Chair in Management Science and Professor in Sauder’s Operations and Logistics Division, was honoured at the 9th annual Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards Gala on December 1. Over 1,200 attendees came together at the Gala organized by the Women’s Executive Network at the Allstream Centre in Toronto to celebrate the 2011 Top 100 Winners in nine categories, proven achievers in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. The event featured a keynote by celebrated author Margaret Atwood, on “The Power of Connected Leadership.” Granot was named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women in the Trailblazers and Trendsetters category, an acknowledgement of her pioneering work championing post-secondary education and interdisciplinary research in Canada. During her term as Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at UBC from 1996 to 2006, she built a unique incubator of ideas and one of the most successful graduate schools in North America, housing more than 30 thinktanks covering the humanities, social sciences, natural and applied sciences, and health. In recognition of her work, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2007, and received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in the Education, Training, and Development category in 2006. In 2002, she was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. Granot’s career at UBC began in 1975, when she became the first female tenure-track faculty member in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration (later renamed the Sauder School of Business). After her term as Dean, she returned to the Sauder School to serve as Senior Associate Dean, Strategic Development and External Relations between 2006 and 2011. In this role, she has made substantial contributions to a wide variety of initiatives dedicated to promoting women in business and mentoring young women—including Co-Chair of the annual Women in Leadership Forum, Chair of the Sauder Women’s Leadership Council and a member of the Advisory Board of the Young Women in Business network. ■
Sauder Operations and Logistics assistant professor Steven Shechter received the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research 2011 Career Investigator Award. Shechter is exploring new methods of optimizing the timing of medical decisions. Through his research, he aims to develop and apply advanced analytical techniques to aid in decision-making in response Assistant Professor Steven Shechter to questions regarding clinical timing. The Career Investigator Award was established to foster the development of outstanding health research in British Columbia by allowing researchers to conduct leading research and expand their potential to make significant contributions in their field. ■
Sauder professors funding application ranks high Finance Assistant Professor Jason Chen’s 2011 SSHRC application was ranked the number one application in the area of accounting, finance, management science and operations management. Chen was awarded a total of $56,042 over three years for his proposed research program, “The Social Welfare Costs of Stock Market Inefficiencies.” Assistant Professor Jason Chen Chen’s project will assess the consequences of an inefficient market by developing a series of macroeconomic models. The findings will make a valuable contribution to the existing body of theoretical literature and aid policy makers in designing policies that mitigate inefficiencies. ■
ATRS presents results of international airport ranking in Australia
Professor Tae Oum
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Sauder Professor Tae Oum, president of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), presented the results of the 2011 Global Airport Benchmarking Report at the ATRS World Conference in Sydney, Australia in early July. The annual report produced by the Sauder-based aviation think-tank measures and compares operating and managerial efficiency and cost competitiveness of 156 airports