To honor the memory of George B. Dantzig and Gerald J. Lieberman, their operations research colleagues, students, and friends are soliciting donations to a new endowed fellowship fund to be known as the Dantzig-Lieberman Operations Research Fellowship Fund. This effort is directed by Professor Emeritus Frederick Hillier.

This new fund will provide financial support, through fellowships or assistantships, for Ph.D. students in the School of Engineering, with a strong preference for students in the Department of Management Science and Engineering who are specializing in Operations Research, a mathematical science pioneered by Dantzig and Lieberman.

Importantly, if gifts and pledges (payable over up to 5 years) to the Fund reach $400,000 by June 30, 2006, the total amount will qualify for one-to-one matching funds from the School of Engineering.

Financial aid resources to support OR Ph.D. students are much more limited now than in past decades. We need your support so that a larger number of deserving students can have the same opportunity that many of our Ph.D. alumni had.