We invite you to join us for the 2008 DSI Annual Meeting, to be held November 22-25 in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. The conference theme is “Improving Competitiveness through Information and Decision Sciences.” See special activities and a listing of journal editors who have expressed interest in attending the conference.

Every two years, DSI sponsors an international conference. The 2009 International DSI Meeting will be held June 24-27, 2009, in Nancy, France. Paper submission deadline is February 1, 2009. Program Chair is Minoo Tehrani, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA, mtehrani@rwu.edu. For more information, see http://internationaldsi.org/

See the current news publication for feature articles such as a conversation with D. Clay Whybark, by Natasa Christodoulidou of California State University Dominguez Hills; an article by 2007 Instructional Innovation Award finalist Thomas M. Triscari, Jr., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and LMI Research Institute ( “EXEC: An Interactive Learning Approach to Developing Decision Making Expertise in Business and Management Programs”); “The Management of Research and Research Funding in the U.K.,” by Brian Lehaney, Coventry University, U.K., and Steve Clarke, University of Hull, U.K.; "Wikipedia and DSI: Building a Decision Sciences Institute Knowledgebase,” by Kenneth E. Kendall, Rutgers University; “Business Professors Do Create Value for Tomorrow’s Managers,” by Bin Jiang, DePaul University and “A Deeper Look at Lean Best Practices,” by Eric O. Olsen, California Polytechnic State University.

President-Elect: Ram Narasimhan, Michigan State University
Treasurer: Christine T. Kydd, University of Delaware
At-Large Vice-Presidents:
Robert L. Andrews, Virginia Commonwealth University
Shaw K. Chen, University of Rhode Island
Gary Klein, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Marc Schniederjans, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Asia-Pacific Regionally-Elected Vice President: Linda G. Sprague, Rollins College
Midwest Regionally-Elected Vice President: Gene Fliedner, Oakland University
Northeast Regionally-Elected Vice President: R. Daniel Reid, University of New Hampshire
The ballot tabulation was audited and verified by DATAMATX, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia.

Ram Narasimhan