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The UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter will host a panel discussion marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Friday, Feb. 27. The event, from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at the Isenberg School of Management, Room 210, is open to students, faculty and the broader campus community.

The program will feature academic and student perspectives on the war’s ongoing impact while highlighting UMass Amherst’s partnership with the Kyiv School of Economics.

Panelists will include Bogdan Prokopovych, senior lecturer in the Department of Management at Isenberg; Nataliia Bychkova, visiting associate professor of economics at Amherst College; and Myroslav Kryven, assistant professor of computer science at Amherst College.

They will be joined by Kyiv School of Economics exchange students Alisa Mikhieieva, Olesia Rozhanska and Yuliia Zaitseva, who are expected to share firsthand reflections on how the war has affected their education, communities and future plans.

Anna Nagurney, the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies and director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, will moderate the discussion.

Nagurney says the panel is intended to foster dialogue on the human, economic and technological dimensions of the war while highlighting the importance of academic collaboration during times of global crisis.

The event is part of UMass INFORMS’ spring 2026 programming, supported by the Operations and Information Management Department.