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INFORMS Fellow Eva Lee, professor with Georgia Tech's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Lee is the first I.E./O.R. engineer to be nominated and elected for this honor. 

The limited resources available for correctional health services guarantees that many incarcerated individuals with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) will not have access to the newer drug treatments that have revolutionized HCV care. A study in the INFORMS journal Operations Research suggests that the method many prison systems have used to decide who will get HCV treatment and who won't does not represent the most effective use of limited treatment capacity.

A team of five University of Maryland University College students in the Master of Science in Data Analytics (MSDA) program advanced to the final round of the INFORMS O.R. & Analytics Student Team Competition.

The two fatal accidents involving the Boeing 737 MAXX in five months have left airlines with an expensive problem: balancing passengers’ lack of trust in the Boeing 737 MAX carrier versus the cost of cancelling orders and/or reconfiguring their fleet. In their recent research in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, INFORMS member and INSEAD professor Henrich Greve, with colleague Vibha Gaba, have found that although successful airlines are generally ahead on the safety front, less profitable airlines are more likely to respond to aviation incidents by selling off aircraft and buying those perceived to be more reliable.

INFORMS member and INSEAD professor Henrich Greve, with colleague Vibha Gaba, discuss their upcoming research in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, which explores how airlines balance the often-conflicting imperatives of safety and profitability, and in particular, how financial performance affects an airline’s focus on safety.