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Court Backlogs Are Clogging the System – New Research Finds a Surprising Fix
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 21, 2025 – Courts around the world are struggling to keep up with growing caseloads, leaving individuals and businesses waiting months – sometimes years – for resolution. But a new study in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management has uncovered a surprisingly simple way to speed up the system that doesn’t require hiring more judges.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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Shrinking gender pay gap for presidents

Shrinking gender pay gap for presidents

Inside Higher Ed, June 18, 2019

A new study finds that the gender pay gap for university presidents -- currently about 9 percent -- in large part disappears at the most elite colleges and universities. The study was published in the journal Organization Science.

One in six universities worldwide led by a woman

One in six universities worldwide led by a woman

Times Higher Education, June 27, 2019

The lengths to which women still have to go to break the glass ceiling in higher education are laid bare by new data which show that just one in six universities globally has a female leader.

University of Maryland Medical Center received the first drone-delivered organ used for transplant

University of Maryland Medical Center received the first drone-delivered organ used for transplant

Technically Baltimore, April 29, 2019

University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore was the site of the drone delivery of an organ used in a transplant, officials said. The flight took place April 19. Beginning at 1 a.m., a kidney was flown for about 10 minutes, covering a distance of 2.6 miles across the city to UMMC. With a scheduled operation time for 5 a.m., the organ was then successfully transplanted into a patient with kidney failure. The team behind the effort believes use of unmanned vehicles can expand access to donor organs.

The maths problem that could bring the world to a halt

The maths problem that could bring the world to a halt

BBC: Future Now, June 9, 2019

Warren Powell, Oxford University engineer and INFORMS member, discusses dynamic resource allocation and the impact advances in operations research tools can have in addressing allocation issues on a global level. 

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