Liskin Teaching Award

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Dixon, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, this quarter’s winner of the GSBPP Liskin Teaching Award. The recipient is selected by the graduating resident students to acknowledge the faculty member who has had the greatest impact on their academic experience.

Student Award Winners

Navy League Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement

Cmdr. Gary Lazzaro

Association of the United States Army, General Joseph W. Stilwell Chapter Award for Outstanding Army Student

Maj.Thomas Lutz

Naval Postgraduate School Superior Service Award

Maj. Dustin Thorne, USMC

The United States Marine Corps Superior Service Award

Capt. Andrew Holmes

Announcing Women, Peace, and Security Workshop

From left to right:
Capt. Glidden Nieves (USMILGP-Chile Embassy of the U.S.A.), Carolina Contreras Berrios (Chile Ministry of Defense), Maj. Jose M. Carrera Calderon (CECOPAC), Dr. Deborah Gibbons (NPS, GSBPP), Lt. Col. Rodrigo Vasquez Islas (CECOPAC), Sally Baho (NPS, GSBPP), Jack Likens (GPOI), Lt. Carolina Cespedes Benavente and Nate Christensen (USPTC)

The United States Partnership for Peace Training and Education Center (USPTC) Program Office and GSBPP are building international partnerships to help the United Nations and other peacekeeping forces fulfill their responsibilities regarding human rights and the protection of women, and to effectively mainstream women in all aspects of security. Working with the Centro Conjunto para Operaciones de Paz de Chile (CECOPAC), they are executing a joint, intensive two-week course intended to operationalize the knowledge and skills that are necessary to successfully implement a series of United Nations resolutions regarding women’s issues, security, and peacekeeping. Utilizing, Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) funds, the program is being implemented at the request of SOUTHCOM. Read more in the Winter 2013 issue of the GSBPP Research Newsletter.

Dr. Geraldo Ferrer is the new Associate Editor for the “Decision Science Journal.”

GSBPP Associate Professor of Operations and Logistic Management, Dr. Geraldo Ferrer, is the new Associate Editor for the “Decision Sciences Journal”, a premier journal of the Decision Sciences Institute, which publishes scholarly research about decision-making within the boundaries of an organization, and decisions involving inter-firm coordination. The journal promotes research advancing decision-making at the interfaces of business functions and organizational boundaries, and seeks articles extending established lines of work — assuming the results of the research have the potential to substantially impact either decision making theory or industry practice.

Chief of Naval Operations Delivers All Hands Message at Naval Postgraduate School.

Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO) Adm. Mark Ferguson addressed NPS students, faculty and staff during an all-hands call on the university campus, April 25, 2013. During the visit, Ferguson, a graduate of NPS’ computer science program, took part in the semi-annual meeting of the university’s Board of Advisors subcommittee, and shared his vision for the Navy with members of the NPS community. Detailing his own experiences while studying at NPS, Ferguson shared with students the relevance graduate education has had on his military career. “When I came here, it was my first exposure to officers from foreign countries,” said Ferguson. “It was my first exposure to officers from other services, and with solving complex technical problems. It exposed me to the most advanced research and innovative thinking in industry, as well as within the Department of Defense.”