NOTES ON PEOPLE (05/14/00)

NOTES ON PEOPLE

Finance professor delivers distinguished faculty lecture

AMHERST, Mass. - Anna Nagurney, professor of finance and operations management at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, delivered the fourth and final distinguished faculty lecture for 1999-2000 on April 5 in Memorial Hall. She also became the latest recipient of a Chancellor's Medal, the university's highest honor bestowed on individuals for exemplary and extraordinary service to the university. The medal is awarded to all lecturers in the distinguished faculty series.

Dr. Nagurney's lecture, titled "Networks for Fun and Profit," explored the network structure of economic activity ranging from transportation and communications through finance. "Networks provide the infrastructure for the functioning of our societies and economies," said Dr. Nagurney, "and they are pervasive not only in our daily lives but in business, science and technology, social systems and education. Given the importance and relevance of networks in our network economy, the opportunity for profits are limitless."

Dr. Nagurney discussed the reality of many of today's networks with a focus on congestion, complexity, large-scale nature and paradoxical phenomena. She highlighted how complex network problems are formulated and solved, and demonstrated network structure in a diversity of problems with a goal of visualization.

"The 'fun,' " she noted, "lies in the discovery of new network applications and phenomena and in formalizing the understanding of them."

Dr. Nagurney joined the University of Massachusetts in 1983 and in 1998 was appointed John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the department of finance and operations management at the Isenberg School.

Throughout her career she has received national and international awards, including the Distinguished Chair Visiting Professorship at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and the International Kempe Prize in honor of Tord Palander (Sweden).

She was recently chosen as an Eisenhower Faculty Fellow by the National Highway Institute, and in 1991 she received a Faculty Award for Women from the National Science Foundation to support her research for a five-year period.

The author of more than 75 journal articles, numerous book chapters, and five books, Dr. Nagurney received her doctorate, master's, and bachelor's degrees from Brown University.

She is a member of UNA Branch 409.

Scholar chosen for listing in 'Who's Who in the World'

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Dr. Ivan Z. Holowinsky, professor of educational psychology at Rutgers University and member of the American Academy of Social Psychology, has been included among social and behavioral scientists by The Marquis Who's Who Publications Board in the publication's millennium edition.

Inclusion in "Who's Who in the World" is limited to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their fields of endeavor and who have thereby contributed significantly to the betterment of society.

Dr. Holowinsky is a member of UNA Branch 353.

Teacher to receive award for excellence in education

PARMA, Ohio - Myroslawa Holubec, a teacher at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral School in Parma, Ohio, for the past 13 years, has been nominated for special recognition by the Southern Area Catholic Conference for an "Excellence in Education Award." Mrs. Holubec and other outstanding diocesan teachers will be honored at the annual Teachers' Recognition Dinner on May 17 at the Grand Valley Party Center.

In addition to her duties as third-grade-teacher at St. Josaphat, Mrs. Holubec serves on the language arts committee. She is chairperson of the public relations and development committee and she is co-moderator for Student Council. She spends much of her time tutoring students from Ukraine who attend St. Josaphat School. Mrs. Holubec is a very active parishoner at her church - Pokrova Ukrainian Catholic Church.

She is a member of UNA Branch 358.

Notes on people is a feature geared toward reporting on the achievements of members of the Ukrainian National Association. All submissions should be concise due to space limitations and must include the person's UNA branch number. Items will be published as soon as possible after their receipt, when space permits.

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