New chairs have been named for industrial and systems engineering, computer science and engineering, and chemical and biological engineering, as well as new heads for academic affairs and research.
The annual award recognizes a teacher, author or mentor who has made extensive and ongoing contributions to educating the next generation of risk scientists.
The Associated Press quoted Jun Zhuang, Morton C. Frank Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, in a story on how public safety officials use Twitter to share information, and how they must contend with fake accounts and other misinformation.
