INFORMS Annual Meeting

The Institute’s director, Dr. Michael Rappa, will be in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday to speak at the INFORMS 2011 Annual Meeting. Dr. Rappa will discuss the education of analytics practitioners as part of a panel organized on graduate degree programs in Analytics. In 2006, he proposed and led the development of the nation’s first Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) degree at NC State. Dr. Rappa will be joined by colleagues from Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge, Northwestern University, and the University of Tennessee–Knoxville.