UMass Amherst Professor Anna Nagurney Nominated for Fulbright Chair at University of Innsbruck

Dec. 4, 2000

AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Professor Anna Nagurney has been nominated for the Fulbright/University of Innsbruck distinguished faculty chair for academic year 2001-02. Nagurney will travel to Austria and will teach from March 2002 until June 2002.

Nagurney, who is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor at the Isenberg School of Management, received one of 34 Fulbright distinguished faculty chairs awarded this fall. At Innsbruck, she will teach three courses that will focus on the theme of network economics and globalization.

Nagurney says, "The University of Innsbruck has recently completed the building of its new business school, which houses a variety of departments and has an interdisciplinary focus. I am sure that my stay there will be not only very interesting, but also productive. The theme of network economics and globalization is particularly timely."

She has been to Austria twice before, to Lech, under the sponsorship of IBM, which held two special-themed workshops in computational economics and finance, Nagurney says. She was an invited speaker at the two workshops.

Nagurney also recently received three grants from the National Science Foundation worth nearly $470,000 to conduct research on how travelers and consumers make decisions involving telecommuting and teleshopping.

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. Last spring, 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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