Family, friends, and current and former members of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering came together to celebrate the professional accomplishments of Mark Karwan, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Praxair Professor in Operations Research, who is retiring after a distinguished career at UB.

Mark Karwan, Praxair Professor of Operations Research and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, was interviewed by WIVB regarding his work with the National Football League.

The Eagles Wire, part of USA Today’s coverage of the National Football League, reports that the Philadelphia Eagles have hired Zachary Steever, who earned a PhD in industrial and systems engineering at UB, as a quantitative analyst.

An article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune about work by Mark Karwan, Praxair Professor of Operations Research and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a team of researchers that has partnered with the NFL in an attempt to make the league schedule as fair as possible looks at the pluses and minuses of the Vikings schedule.

An article in USA Today features the work of Mark Karwan, Praxair Professor of Operations Research and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and how mathematics plays an essential role in creating the NFL schedule each year.

An article on Yahoo Sports reports on work by Mark Karwan, Praxair Professor of Operations Research and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, to create an NFL schedule that is materially fair and largely disparity free.

A story on ESPN reports on work by Mark Karwan, Praxair Professor of Operations Research and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, to create an NFL schedule that is materially fair and largely disparity free.