Happy Holidays to all!

Faculty/Staff update

With Arnie Cooper’s passing, we have lost a link to the beginning of the Krannert School. Arnie was a member of the first master’s class at the school. But some of that history has been preserved;  you can hear Arnie’s story in his own words in an interview he did with Purdue Libraries in 2008: http://bit.ly/Z05w85. We’ll miss his grace, wisdom and wonderful smile.

Krannert faculty are often asked their opinions on current economic issues. Here is a video from Professor Jerry Lynch about the fiscal cliff (http://bit.ly/VAx3W7). Krannert Professors Charlene Sullivan and David Hummels joined Ag Econ Professor Chris Hurt in an economic forecast sponsored by Greater Lafayette Commerce: http://bit.ly/12li343.

Conference standouts: Associate Dean and Professor Greg Hundley was a keynote speaker at a conference in Taiwan: http://bit.ly/Zg3teT. Professor Karthik Kannan is co-organizer of the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (http://bit.ly/RpGPim); Professor Jackie Rees is co-chair of the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (http://bit.ly/SRPqai).

Award winners: Professor Annabelle Feng was awarded the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award by the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). Following the award, she was appointed Departmental Editor for Stochastic Models for the POM Journal. Professor Chad Allred received the 2011 Harold E. Fearon Best Paper Award from the Journal of Supply Chain Management. It’s his fourth research award in the last two years.

In the media: Professor Jin Xu was quoted in a story about insider trading (http://bit.ly/QVoOHa). Bloomberg Businessweek noted Krannert’s hiring of former Lafayette Police Chief Don Roush in its Twitter recap (http://buswk.co/W6c9jM). (Don’t forget to follow us…@PurdueKrannert.) And last, but certainly not least, someone had to address the national nightmare of the Hostess bankruptcy. Associate Dean Logan Jordan was just the person: http://bit.ly/TUOpk1.

Standout students

Krannert students strive to make a difference. A prime example is the work a team of students is doing with Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), a group trying to get clean water to Central Africa. Patrick Johanns has students in his class working on logistics for the project:  http://bit.ly/T9g7qV.

Other students wanted to put a visible face on the need to recycle, so they created a “Mount Trashmore” in Rawls Hall: http://bit.ly/Z0oBqP.

Krannert students also like to innovate; Bloomberg Businessweek picked up a tweet about the large increase in students who filed patent applications in the last year (http://buswk.co/UjPeiL).

Case competitors: A team of Krannert students (Saurabh Arora, Azam Akhtar and Debdeep Roy) was one of six squads invited to the finals at the National University of Singapore as part of Cerebration 2012 (http://bit.ly/VWUH4O). That competition started with 724 teams from around the globe. Master’s students Eric Fredrickson, Egemen Gozoglu and Katharina Gishewski won the business track in the Grundfos Challenge, a competition to give business and engineering students the opportunity to design solutions for managing the world’s water resources (http://bit.ly/XU1pcg).

Alumni accomplishments

Stephen McKeon, who earned a master’s degree and doctorate from the Krannert School, was named a recipient of the Financial Research Association’s Michael J. Barclay Award for his promising research work (http://bit.ly/Rw0VF1).

Recent Krannert graduates Kyle Frye and Jacob Boerema recently completed a cross-country bicycle ride with Bike and Build. The trip aims to raise awareness and funding for affordable housing across the nation; the duo kept a blog about the trip (http://bit.ly/XU7bdU).

Until next month…