Sheldon Howard Jacobson,
Ph.D.
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In the News (2008 and earlier)
(December
16, 2008) News release by the University of Illinois New Bureau, quantifying
the relationship between obesity and fuel consumption: With increasing obesity,
fuel consumption becomes weighty matter
(November
2008) SIAM News: A Shot in the Arm for Integer Programming.
(October 2008) Managed Care Magazine:
Web Site Provides Pediatric Vaccine Pricing.
(September
15, 2008) Who is going to win the 2008 United States Presidential Election? A Prediction Model for the United States Presidential Election
(News Release).
(February
14, 2008) A Minute with Sheldon Jacobson: How can better pre-screening make
airports safer?
(October 24, 2006) News release
highlighting the impact of the obesity epidemic on fuel consumption:
(September 20, 2006) Feature Research
Video (7 minutes; may take a few minutes to load):
Aviation Security: Researching the Risk
(September 20, 2006) News
Research Video (3 minutes; may take a few minutes to load)
(April 24, 2006) Research video (14
minutes):
A
Healthy Collaboration: Pediatric Immunization and Operations Research
(April 18, 2006) News release
highlighting pediatric vaccine stockpile risk:
$1.5 billion needed to ensure 12-month stockpile of pediatric
vaccines