Donald Morrison, a marketing professor at The Anderson School at UCLA, was recently presented with the 2002 American Marketing Association/ Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator of the Year Award, the highest honor a marketing educator can receive.

Morrison accepted the award during the Marketing Educators' Conference in San Diego, Calif. A dinner in Morrison's honor followed his acceptance speech. "While it is an honor for me personally to receive this award, I feel that the major reason I won is because of the extraordinary success of my Ph.D. students," Morrison said. "Therefore I am accepting this award on behalf of my whole academic family."

The primary criterion for this award is that its recipient be universally acknowledged as a long-standing leader in marketing education. Furthermore, the award honors those who have made "extensive and sustained contributions to marketing education" and to the discipline of marketing in general.

An Anderson School faculty member since 1987, Morrison has enjoyed an academic career in marketing that spans nearly 40 years. Just last year he was awarded the prestigious American Marketing Association's Gilbert A. Churchill Award for Lifetime Achievement in Marketing Research.

A past president of TIMS, Morrison is the author or co-author of more than 90 articles in referred journals with special emphasis on marketing research and applied statistics. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of Marketing.

Morrison received his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University in 1965 and his B.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1961. He taught at Columbia University for 22 years before joining The Anderson School.

Randolph Hall, chairman of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, recently announced that the department was renamed in honor of one of the school's distinguished alumnus, Daniel J. Epstein. The Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering is the first named department at USC. Epstein donated $10 million to the department to aid in the recruitment of new faculty and to establish two endowed chairs. The department's goal is to add faculty and to establish leadership in the areas of information technology and engineering management.

Brian Boffey of the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom) received the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis (LALA) award given by the Section on Location Analysis (SOLA) of INFORMS. The triennial award recognizes one or more individuals for "the significance of the sum of the achievements of the recipient over the recipient's career and their impacts on location analysis research." Boffey has conducted research and published on different aspects of location modeling such as network covering problems, p-median problems, hierarchical facility locations and locations of facilities that house hazardous materials. He has served on the editorial boards of journals such as Location Science, Studies in Location Analysis and has guest edited special issues of RAIRO-OR and EJOR. He has also contributed to the service of the location analysis community by organizing several international conferences.



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