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<br /> AWARDS GALORE: INFORMS honors its best and brightest<br /> December 2015<br /> Volume 42 • Number 6<br /> ormstoday.informs.org<br /> Agriculture & Analytics<br /> Farming provides fertile ground<br /> for innovation<br /> Protecting Our Protectors<br /> New study: Improving VA and<br /> veterans’ care<br /> Roundtable: BNSF Railway<br /> O.R. team puts down tracks<br /> to the future<br /> Grand Challenges:<br /> Sustainability<br /> How O.R. can help secure an environmentally<br /> sound and energy-efficient future<br /> Meet the ‘Member in Chief’<br /> Interview with incoming INFORMS<br /> President Ed Kaplan<br /> <br /> <br /> Contents<br /> December 2015 | Volume 42, No. 6 | ormstoday.informs.org<br /> 2<br /> 8<br /> On the Cover<br /> Energy & the environment<br /> The second in a series of articles on<br /> operations research’s possible role in solving<br /> grand challenges focuses on sustainability.<br /> Image ©<a title="ORMS Today, December 2015 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f1b89a8?page=1"> AWARDS GALORE: INFORMS honors its best and bright</a> <a title="ORMS Today, December 2015 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f1b89a8?page=2"> </a> <a title="ORMS Today, December 2015 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f1b89a8?page=3"> </a> <a title="ORMS Today, December 2015 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f1b89a8?page=4"> Contents December 2015 | Volume 42, No. 6 | o</a> <a title="ORMS Today, December 2015 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f1b89a8?page=5"> XLMINER®: Data Mining Everywhere Predictive Anal</a> <a title="ORMS Today, December 2015 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f1b89a8?page=6"> 32 December 2015 | Volume 42, No. 6 | ormsto</a> <a title="ORMS Today, December 2015 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f1b89a8?page=7"> ANALYTIC SOLVER® PLATFORM From Solver to Full-Po</a> <a title="ORMS Today, December 2015 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f1b89a8?page=8"> Inside Story Peter Horner, editor peter.hor</a> <a title="ORMS Today, December 2015 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f1b89a8?page=9"> ANALYTICS IN YOUR BROWSER Optimization, Simulatio</a> <a title="ORMS Today, December 2015 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f1b89a8?page=10"> President’s Desk L. 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