UMass Amherst Professor Receives Second $25,000 AT&T Grant to Study Supernetworks

Jan. 13, 2003

AMHERST, Mass. - For the second year in a row, University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Anna Nagurney has received a $25,000 Industrial Faculty Fellowship from the AT&T Foundation. Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass.

The fellowship renews the foundation’s support for her project, Supernetworks and the Environment: Foundations and a Virtual Center. Last year’s project engaged Nagurney and a half dozen students in the formal study of a wide spectrum of networks, including e-commerce supply chains, transportation, telecommuting, teleshopping, and regional economies. Nagurney says this year’s agenda will explore supply chain networks with recycling (notably "e-cycling,") and environmental aspects of financial networks with electronic transactions.

"Last year’s initial AT&T fellowship was mostly about the foundation’s expectations; this year’s it’s just as much an endorsement of our work. They’ve seen it, approved, and want us to continue," says Nagurney, who leads a research team of half a dozen students who work with her on the project. The team – a multicultural group from the Ukraine, Cape Verdean Islands, Japan, and other countries – has contributed to articles that have been accepted for publication in Transportation Research, Quantitative Finance, European Journal of Operations Research, and other journals.

Nagurney was nominated for the Fulbright/University of Innsbruck distinguished faculty chair for academic year 2001-02, and traveled to Austria to teach from March 2002 until June 2002.

Nagurney joined the University in 1983 and is an internationally known scholar whose work includes constructing computer models of large-scale financial, transportation, and regional economic systems. In 2000, she delivered a Distinguished Faculty Lecture at UMass and was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal. In 1999, she was the recipient of an Eisenhower Faculty Fellowship from the National Highway Institute.

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