Visiting Scholar Earns Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award

For release:  April 5, 2012

Jighyasu Gaur, a visiting scholar in Fogelman’s Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management, has received the Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award (EEDSA) 2012 from the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS).

Gaur, a doctoral student at India’s Icfai Business School Hyderabad, is visiting the Fogelman College of Business & Economics during the 2011-2012 academic year. He is working with Dr. Mehdi Amini on his Ph.D. dissertation in the area of Sustainable Supply Chain Management. His research and teaching contributions extend nearly a decade at his current institution and at the Modi Institute of Technology in Kota, India.

POMS is an international professional organization that represents the interests of production and operations management professionals from around the world. The Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award is given annually to top doctoral students from countries in emerging markets.