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Eldon Gunn Service Award

Description
Nomination instructions
Recipients
 

Description

The Eldon Gunn Service Award is presented to members of the society who have made outstanding contributions of time and service to the society: at the national or local level, as conference organizers or as editors of CORS publications. Eldon Gunn was a major contributor to the society since the early 1980s and to operational research in Canada since the 1970s. He was one of the first recipients of the Service Award in 1987, after serving on council and acting as conference chair for the 27th annual conference in Halifax in 1985. He went on to serve as president of the society in 1991 and continued his service with passion up until his passing in 2016.

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Nomination instructions

If you know of anyone who has dedicated their time to CORS and who has a longstanding service record, please consider nominating them for the Eldon Gunn Service Award. CORS Council urges all local sections to consider and nominate their best candidates. Nominations should include the candidate's name, activities, positions, and corresponding years of service. The Awards Committee will evaluate the submissions and bring forward potential recipients to Council for approval. Nominees will be evaluated based on a point system. As a guideline, winners should have 2000 or more points. Previous winners are not eligible for additional Service Awards. A list of past recipients can be found on the CORS website. 

Please submit nominations by 25 March 2025 to CORS Awards Committee Chair Marco Bijvank (vicepresident@cors.ca)

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Recipients

2024

Marco Bijvank
Manish Verma

2023

Navneet Vidyarthi
Michael Pavlin

2022

Timothy Chan
Fatma Gzara

2021

Sonia Vanderby
Stanko Dimitrov
Mehmet Begen

2019

Dionne Aleman

2018

Fredrik Ødegaard
Anjali Awasthi

2017

Irène Abi-Zeid
Louis-Martin Rousseau

2016

Corinne MacDonald

2015

Bill Simms

2014

Diane Bischak

2013

Samir Elhedhli

2012

Taraneh Sowlati

2011

Thomas B. Morrison
Thorn Walden
Saeed Zolfaghari

2010

Neil Barnes
Vihn Quan
Neil Robinson

2009

Debbie Blakeney
Elkafi Hassini
René Séguin

2008

Armann Ingolfsson

2007

Steve Drekic
Vedat Verter

2006

Bernard Gendron
Jean-Marc Rousseau

2005

Belaïd Aouni
Mohan L. Chaudhry

2004

Maurice Elliott
Winfried Grassmann

2003

Nadine Hofmann
David Martell
Evelyn Richards

2002

John Blake
Jean-Marc Martel

2001

Ron Pelot
Gilles d'Avignon
Bernard Lamond

2000

Richard J. Caron
Erhan Erkut
David Wright

1999

Roger L. Roy
Cradock S. Spence
Michel G. Goulet

1998

Michel Gendreau
Marvin Mandelbaum
Farhood Rahnama

1997

Wade Cook
François Julien
David Stanford

1996

Paula Gray Zimmerman
John Meijer
Archie Chung

1995

Benjamin Smith
Brian Radomske
Laura Logan

1994

M. C. Lévesque
George Rowan
Cornelius van de Panne

1993

Dorothy Jones
S. Kahkeshan
Alain Martel

1992

Rick Burns
Karen Elliot

1991

Peter Friedrichs
Stan Isbrandt
Tibor Szandtner
Paul Belshaw
John Gratwick
Gilbert Laporte
Ken Mitchell

1989

Michael W. Carter
Carl L. Sandblom
Michael J. Ricketts

1988

Virginia J. Dybenko
Louise Vignault-Rasiulis

1987

Peter C. Bell
Eldon Gunn
Gordon Cassidy
Michael Magazine
Arjan Chandan
Michael Scriabin
Vern Chant
Jeffrey Sidney
Michael Florian
Marcus Weinberger

1986

J.H. Bookbinder
David Howard
J.A. Buzacott
F.J. Joyce
J.J. Conn
Murray Lister
Alex Cowie
R.E.A. Mason
G.N. Currie
Claude Papion
J.D. Davidson
L.E.G. Parker
Fraser Dunford
E.A. Silver

1985

A. Porter
C. Law
J.L. Hudson
K.J. Radford
John Walters
John Roberts
Ann Bodnarchuk
W.L. Price
Nigel Hopkins
Colin Hudson
Dave Deziel

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