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Dan Andrews, a Ph.D. student at the Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, presented at the Military Operations Research Society 's 87th Symposium, “Advancing Analytics to Support National Security,” which was held June 17-20, 2019, at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Cody Pennetti, a Ph.D. student working with Engineering Systems and Environment professor James H. Lambert at the Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, is a finalist in the Student Merit Competition organized by the Society for Risk Analysis' Engineering and Infrastructure Specialty Group. The competition promotes excellence in risk analysis research for engineering and infrastructure management.

Ph.D. student Shravan Sreekumar participated in the kickoff of the Games, Decisions, Risk and Reliability (GDDR) SAMSI GDDR workshop of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, SAMSI on August 5-9, 2019 in Durham, North Carolina, USA.” The GDDR is a year long program that plans a semester of research on game theory and adversarial risk analysis.

Kelsey Hollenback, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, has been awarded a SMART Scholarship (Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation Scholarship) by the Department of Defense. She will work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineering Research and Development Center on its Risk and Decision Science Team. Kelsey's scholarship will cover tuition and fees and includes an allowance for books, supplies and an annual stipend.

Center Director and Engineering Systems and Environment Professor James H. Lambert presented research related to advances in enterprise systems risk and resilience at two major conferences in summer 2019.

Google Scholar recently published their annual journal metrics which measure the impact of scholarly journals. The Springer journal “Environment Systems & Decisions” (https://www.springer.com/environment/journal/10669) received an h5-index of 21. This year's score shows a continued upward trend. The scores from the previous three years have been 18, 16, and 14.

PhD candidate Kelsey Hollenback completed the CyberCarpentry: Data Life-Cycle Training with the Datanet Federation Consortium Workshop funded by the National Science Foundation on July 15-26, 2019 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The CyberTraining program of the National Science Foundation sources and educates the national scientific workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure that enables cutting-edge science and engineering research.

Professor James H. Lambert, who directs Engineering Systems and Environment's Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, chaired the 2019 Fifth World Congress on Risk. The Congress is organized by the Society for Risk Analysis in partnership with the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Africa Biennial Conference to grow innovation and knowledge across risk analysis and management communities.

Virginia has been identified as one of the most promising logistics hubs on the East Coast. The public-private partnership (of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics) utilizes the research expertise of UVa and a consortium of state universities to tackle logistical issues with Virginia's highway, rail and port assets.
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During his more than 30 years at the University of Virginia School of Engineering, Yacov Haimes forged an international reputation for his insights into the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of large interdependent and interconnected systems. Haimes founded the Center in 1987 and developed into an important contributor to the understanding of engineering risk and resilence. His many accomplishments to the University were covered in a story by UVA Engineering.