Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition
Instructional Innovation Award Competition
Best Paper Awards Competition
Best Teaching Case Studies Award Competition

Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition. The purpose of the Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition is to encourage and publicize outstanding dissertation research by selecting and recognizing the best dissertations written in the past year in the decision sciences. The Elwood S. Buffa Dissertation Award, accompanied by a $1,500 prize, will be presented at the annual meeting. Applicants for this award should submit three hard copies of their dissertation in the required format directly to the Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition Coordinator by April 1, 2012.

Richard Metters, Texas A & M University, rmetters@mays.tamu.edu

Instructional Innovation Award Competition. The Instructional Innovation Award Competition seeks to recognize outstanding contributions that advance instructional approaches within the decision sciences. The focus of this award is on innovation in college- or university-level teaching. Three finalists will be chosen to make presentations at the conference competition. The winning entry receives an award of $1,500, and $750 will be divided among each of the other finalists. Applicants are required to submit all contributions electronically using instructions on the conference Web site. The due date for submissions is April 1, 2012.

Sriram Narayanan, Michigan State University, narayanan@bus.msu.edu

Best Paper Awards Competition. Best Paper Awards will be presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting. Categories include Best Theoretical/Empirical Research Paper, Best Application Paper, Best Interdisciplinary Paper, and Best Student Paper. At the discretion of the program chair and track chairs, outstanding scholarship may be recognized through a distinguished paper award in a given track. Reviewers will be asked to nominate competitive paper submissions for these awards. Nominations will then be reviewed by a best paper review committee, which will make award recommendations. The due date for submissions is April 1, 2012.

Rohit Verma, Cornell University, rv54@cornell.edu

Best Teaching Case Studies Award Competition. The Teaching Case Studies Workshop serves an active role in the dissemination of new ideas with respect to case studies topics. Cases may be methodological in nature (i.e., crafted to support the learning of a specific technical skill) or integrative (i.e., designed to foster the integration of scientific approaches and analyses with real-world decision making). The due date for submissions is April 1, 2012.

Kaushik Sengupta, Hofstra University, kaushik.sengupta@hofstra.edu

For a listing of past DSI award winners, see the DSI Hall of Fame.