Talley Receives 2013 Distinguished 运输 RESEARCHer Award
2013年4月1日
Wayne Talley (left) and former 运输 Secretary Norman Mineta.
Wayne Talley, Frederick W. Beazley Professor of Economics in Old Dominion University's College of Business and Public 政府 (CBPA) and executive director of ODU's Maritime Institute, has received the 2013 Distinguished 运输 RESEARCHer Award from the 运输 RESEARCH Forum (TRF).
Talley, a world-renowned scholar in the field of 运输 research, received the award at the 54th Annual National Forum Meeting of TRF in Annapolis, Md.， 3月22日.
The award is in recognition of Talley's significant record of 运输 publications, the growth of the journal 运输 RESEARCH Part E: 物流 and 运输 Review into one of the top-ranked academic 运输 journals in the world over his 13-year tenure as editor-in-chief and his ranking in the international maritime 运输 academic community. Notable previous recipients of the RESEARCHer Award include Nobel Laureates in economics William Vickrey of Columbia University and Dan McFadden of the University of California, 加州大学伯克利分校.
At the annual forum, Norman Mineta, U.S. secretary of 运输 under President George W. 布什, also received the TRF President's Award for his significant contributions to the enhancement of U.S. 运输.
Under Talley's leadership, the ODU business college has grown to be a world leader in maritime, port and 运输 research. The 国际 Association of Maritime Economists ranks ODU eighth in the world in port research, making it the second-ranked university in the Western Hemisphere.
The CBPA offers one of two undergraduate degree programs in the country to emphasize maritime management. 另外, the college began a new study abroad program in 2007 featuring tours of the ports of Europe and East Asia through the Maritime Institute that Talley heads. He has also worked in a multidisciplinary fashion with researchers from other ODU colleges and around the world.
扶轮基金会是全国性的, independent organization of 运输 professionals that was formed in 1959 for the purpose of "providing an interdisciplinary and impartial meeting ground for the exchange of information, leading practices and ideas among practitioners, researchers and government officials related to all modes of freight and passenger 运输, dealing with both domestic and international issues."