Travel Support for Minority Students to Attend INFORMS Annual Meeting; October 24-27, 2004; Denver, CO

这项赠款提供资金，以支持10名代表不足的少数民族研究生参加运筹学和管理科学研究所（INFORMS）于2004年10月24日至2004年10月27日在丹佛举行的年会。 学生们将在INFORMS少数群体问题论坛的欢迎招待会上展示海报，并参加会议期间举行的博士座谈会。 因此，该补助金支持的学生将获得必要的专业发展技能，成为运筹学专业的一个组成部分，并有机会向该专业的广泛受众传播他们的研究。该补助金将有助于增加运筹学专业人员的数量和多样性。 此外，从经验中获得的专业发展沿着与该领域榜样的互动，将积极影响学生在一定程度上的坚持和在该领域的实践。

This grant provides funding to support 10 underrepresented minority graduate students to attend the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting in Denver from October 24, 2004 to October 27, 2004. The students will give poster presentations at the welcoming reception of the Minority Issues Forum of INFORMS and also attend the doctoral colloquium conducted at conference. Thus, the students supported by this grant will acquire necessary professional development skills to become an integral part of the operations research profession and the opportunity to disseminate their research to a broad audience in the profession.This grant will assist in increasing the number and diversity of operations research professionals. Also, the professional development gained from the experience along with the interaction with role models in the field will positively affect the students' persistence to a degree and practice in the field.