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AI-Powered Tech Supercharges Ocean Cleanup, Boosting Plastic Collection by 60%
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 23, 2025 – As plastic pollution in the world’s oceans reaches critical levels, groundbreaking new research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal – boosting efficiency by more than 60%.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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Bloomberg Markets: What'd You Miss?

Bloomberg Markets: What'd You Miss?

Bloomberg, September 27, 2021

Romaine Bostick, Taylor Riggs & Sonali Basak bring the news and analysis you may have missed after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's show tackles the supply chain woes Guests Today: Christopher Tang of the UCLA Anderson School, Craig Fuller of FreightWaves (Source: Bloomberg)

Lessons learned from hurricane recovery can improve supply chains

Lessons learned from hurricane recovery can improve supply chains

The Hill, September 27, 2021

We are in the middle of hurricane season. Every time one rolls through the Gulf Coast or Florida on its way up through the Atlantic Seaboard and the Northeast, as was recently seen with Ida, only after the winds and rain stop does the real clean-up work begin. The same observation can be made about our nation’s deeply troubled supply chain.   

The great container shortage

The great container shortage

ABC, September 27, 2021

Standardising shipping containers in the 1950’s made global trade possible but what happens to supply chains when there’s a shortage of these big metal boxes

Decision Science Digest: September 28, 2021

Decision Science Digest: September 28, 2021

Journal Paper, September 28, 2021
  • New Research Predicts Wildfire Threat and Helps Position Personnel and Resources Accordingly (INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics)
  • Physician Incentives Can Reduce the Overuse of Cardiac Stents by 26% (INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management)
  • Researchers Develop Way to Improve Fleet-based Operations that Reduce Electric Mobility Service Costs by Nearly 40% (INFORMS journal Transportation Science)
  • Learning from Failure: New Research Shows Too Much Optimism Hinders Entrepreneurs (INFORMS journal Organization Science)

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