UMass Professor Anna Nagurney Awarded AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellowship

Feb. 13, 2002

AMHERST, Mass. - UMass Professor Anna Nagurney has been awarded a $25,000 Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship from the AT&T Foundation to support her multidisciplinary research team studying a wide range of networks from e-commerce supply chains to telecommuting and teleshopping decision-making.

Nagurney, who is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor and member of the department of finance and operations management at the Isenberg School of Management, heads up a project titled, "Supernetworks and the Environment: Foundations and a Virtual Center." Nagurney and her students are working to make networks more efficient using algorithms and supercomputers.

The fellowship will also support Nagurney’s Virtual Center for Supernetworks, which disseminates research, writing, news, and tutorials in the supernetwork field to an international audience.

The AT&T Foundation established its Industrial Ecology Grants Program in 1993 to encourage academic activity in the multidisciplinary field that studies industrial and economic systems and their linkages with natural systems. AT&T says the field also intersects with disciplines such as law, economics, anthropology, business studies, engineering, and the social and physical sciences.

"We are thrilled with the great opportunity that the AT&T Foundation fellowship will provide in enabling us to push the frontiers surrounding decision-making in the information age in regard to environmental issues," Nagurney says.

The UMass award is one of six nationwide. Other schools receiving fellowships are Carnegie Mellon University; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Irvine; the University of Michigan; and the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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