Recognize Excellence: Nominate a Deserving Peer

MORS’ prizes and awards call attention to excellence, advances in the field and individuals of distinction. Click on each individual award or prize to learn more information and to see the listing of previous winners.

Contact recognition@mors.org with any questions.


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MORS Awards

Annual Distinguished Awards

Vance R. Wanner Award

Deadline: 18 February 2025

The Wanner Award recognizes a national security operations research professional who has played a major role in strengthening the professional.

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Clayton J.Thomas Award

Deadline: 18 February 2025

The Thomas Award recognizes an individual who has, through his or her involvement in the field of national security operations research, exhibited sustained outstanding individual performance and contributions, shared knowledge and talents with others in the field, and provided technically sound options to national security decision-makers.

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Annual Notable Awards

John K. Walker, Jr.

Anyone who publishes in the Phalanx in the previous calendar year is eligible to receive this award.

“The Magazine of National Security Analysis”: The purpose of this award is to recognize the author(s) of the technical article judged to be the best published in the Phalanx, the Bulletin of Military Operations Research, during the previous calendar year.

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MOR Journal

Anyone who publishes in the MOR Journal in the previous calendar year is eligible to receive this award.

The MOR Journal award recognizes exemplary peer-refereed research, whose authors apply scientific methods to build quantitative models, manipulate data, and evaluate results.

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Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.

Deadline: 18 February 2025

The purpose of the Hughes Award is to recognize early career and Junior Analysts who are already making an impact on operations research.

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Phalanx Editors' Award

The Phalanx Editors’ Award was established in 2022. It is awarded annually to the author(s) of the best non-technical article published in the Phalanx, MORS’ quarterly magazine, during the previous calendar year.

This is in contrast to the John K. Walker, Jr. Award, which recognizes the best technical article published in the Phalanx during the previous calendar year.

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MORS Prizes

Annual Prizes

Richard H. Barchi Prize

The Barchi Prize invites nominated presenters from the most recent MORS Symposium (MORSS) to submit written papers, and recognizes outstanding quality among these submissions.

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David Rist Prize

The Rist Prize recognizes the practical benefit sound operations research can have on real life decision making, and seeks the best implemented military operations research study from those submitted in response to a call for entries.

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Eugene P. Visco Prize

Deadline: ETF registration.

The Eugene P. Visco Prize recognizes Junior Analyst presenters at the annual Emerging Techniques Forum for excellence in research quality, contribution, and caliber. Early career and Junior Analysts conducting impactful, technically rigorous, and multi-disciplinary research are highly encouraged to apply!

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Annual Student Awards

Dr. James T. Moore Graduate Research Prize

MORS presents a Graduate Research Prize to an OR student in the graduating class at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). The Operational Sciences faculty at AFIT establishes the specific standards for the Prize and selects the winner for each class.

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The Tisdale Graduate Research Prize

MORS presents a Graduate Research Prize to an OR student in the graduating class at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The OR faculty at NPS establish the specific standards for the Prize and select the winner for each class.

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Student Competition

Richard E. Rosenthal Student Competition

A prized feature of the MORS Education and Professional Development (EPD) Colloquium, the Richard E. Rosenthal Student Competition is a “quick reaction analysis” competition which allows students from all participating institutions to work on an OR problem together, demonstrate their skills and learn different ways to approach a problem toward a team solution.

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