Duke Professional News: December 11, 2003
Rex Du | Jonathan Wiener | Duke Math Meet | Malachi Hacohen
Thursday, December 11, 2003
Rex Du, a Ph.D. student at the Fuqua School of Business, has been named co-winner of the Marketing Science Institute (MSI) 2003 Alden G. Clayton doctoral dissertation competition.
Du's dissertation, titled, "Lifetime Total Category Requirement and Share of Category Requirements: Estimation and Application in Customer Equity Management," was selected from the 87 submissions the MSI received this year. Du's advisers were Wagner Kamakura , Carl Mela and Rick Staelin, Fuqua marketing professors and scholars at the Teradata Center for Customer Relationship Management at Duke.
Competition winners receive $5,000. Du shared the 2003 award with Simona Botti, a PhD student from the University of Chicago.
The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) has awarded Duke Law Professor Jonathan Wiener the 2003 Chauncey Starr Award, which each year honors the individual aged 40 or under who has made the most exceptional contributions to the field of risk analysis. Wiener specializes in the use of risk analysis in environmental law and policy. His work has focused on how the inescapable interconnectedness of risks challenges and shapes regulatory policy, including the development of the concept, analysis of and remedies for "risk-risk tradeoffs"; analysis of the "precautionary principle" in United States, European and international law; and the development of risk-based regulatory approaches for global climate change and more generally for better environmental protection at lower cost.
"I am honored to receive this award from the SRA, a group I respect and admire for bringing top experts in diverse disciplines together to help solve truly pressing problems," said Wiener.
Two research papers coauthored by Devendra P. Garg, professor of mechanical engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and his graduate students were presented at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Congress and Exposition. The congress was held Nov. 16 - 21 in Washington, D.C. One paper by Ram Parimi, Piyush Jain, and Garg was titled "Fuzzy Logic Control of a Laboratory Magnetic Levitation System", and the other paper by Navneet Gulati and Garg was titled "Component Assemblies in a Flexible Workcell via Intelligent Control."
A record 180 high school students from Georgia to Virginia participated in the annual Duke Math Meet on Nov. 15. Led by Duke Math Union president Oaz Nir and Math Meet coordinator Paul Wrayno, more than 20 Duke students supervised the competition, created the problems, graded the solutions and presented the awards. Teams from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia took first and third place in the team power round with Atlanta Math Club placing second.
Malachi Hacohen, associate professor of history, received the Friedrich Adler State Prize for the History of Social Movements in recognition of his book, Karl Popper, the Formative Years: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna. He has also received a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Society for his project Jacob and Esau: Jewish Emancipation and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism.
