Sheldon Howard Jacobson,
Ph.D.
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(23 March 2016) The Invited Op-Ed, After
Brussels, simply adding extra security won’t keep travelers safe, which
discusses the reaction to the Brussels airport bombing, appeared on Quartz (23 March 2016). See also DefenseOne, HotAir, Government
Executive, Aspen Institute
and Time
(Five Best Ideas of the Day, 25 March 2016, #1).
The article, Get healthy —
Add a bus stop to your diet, by Esther Cepeda, syndicated
columnist for the Washington Post,
released on 13 March 2014, featured research on the interrelationship between caloric
intake, automobile use, and obesity, which was first reported in a research
paper published in Preventive Medicine
in 2013.
The article, Hang Up the Car Keys, appeared in Cancer Today (Spring 2013, Volume 3(1),
page 57), features research on the interrelationship between caloric intake,
automobile use, and obesity, which was reported Preventive Medicine in 2013.
The article "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Sequential
Aviation Security Screening Policies,"
which appeared in the August 2011 issue of IIE Transactions (Volume 43,
Number 8, pages 546-565), co-authored with A.J. Lee, was highlighted
in Research Executive Summaries in the July 2011 issue of Industrial
Engineering, the monthly professional magazine of the Institute of
Industrial Engineers.
The article "A Sequential
Stochastic Passenger Screening problem for Aviation Security," which
appeared in the June 2009 issue of IIE Transactions (Volume 41, Number
6, pages 575-579), co-authored with L.A. McLay and
A.G. Nikolaev, was highlighted in Research
Executive Summaries in the May 2009 issue of Industrial Engineering,
the monthly professional magazine of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
The articles Want to
Conserve Fuel? Study Finds Losing Weight Saves Money at the Pump, in Motor Trend and No Free Ride for Blubber, in the 2 January 2009 issue of Science (Volume 323(5910) featured the results
relating fuel consumption and obesity reported in Jacobson and King (2009).
The article, A Shot in the
Arm for Integer Programming, by Barry Cipra, that
appeared in the November 2008 issue of SIAM News (Volume 41, Number 9)
featured the pediatric vaccine modeling and analysis research covered in Hall et al. (2009).
The article, Web Site
Provides Pediatric Vaccine Pricing, that appeared in the October 2008 issue
of Managed Care Magazine (Volume 17,
Number 10) featured the pediatric vaccine modeling covered in
Jacobson and Sewell (2008).
The web
site, http://election08.cs.illinois.edu/,
assembled by Sheldon H. Jacobson and his collaborators generated wide spread
media attention after the press release “Latest Electoral College Forecast
Shows McCain Ahead By as Many as 27 Votes,” was issued on September 17, 2008 by
INFORMS. Mentions included the St.
Louis Dispatch, Wall Street Journal, msnbc.com, and Science.
The paper
“The Tradeoff between Technology and Prescreening Intelligence in Checked
Baggage Screening for Aviation Security,” to appear in Journal of
Transportation Security, was featured in “A Minute with Sheldon Jacobson:
How can better pre-screening make airports safer?” on the University of
Illinois web site (www.uiuc.edu) on February 14, 2008.
Sheldon H. Jacobson appeared as
an expert in the documentary “Killer at Large” (produced by Shinebox
Media productions), which highlights the growing obesity epidemic and its
impact on society. The documentary was released in December 2007.
The paper “The
Economic Impact of Obesity on Automobile Fuel Consumption," published in The
Engineering Economist (Volume 51, Number 4, 307-323, October –December
2006) by Taylor and Francis received media coverage following a
press release issued on October 24, 2006 by the University of Illinois News
Bureau, as well as an Associated Press news release on October 25, 2006.
Media coverage included several hundred newspapers and magazine articles, radio
show interviews and reports, and television interview and reports.
Newspaper coverage included Washington
Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe. Magazines included Business Week, Car and Driver, Forbes,
and Kiplinger. Several radio
interviews and reports were broadcasted, including Morning Edition on National Public Radio, The Osgood Files on CBS Radio, and two interviews on
On
October 24, 2006, the National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a press release
(06-154) “New
Technologies Could
The paper “Pediatric Vaccine Stockpile Levels: How Much is Enough?” (co-authored with E.C. Sewell, R.A. Proano, and J.A. Jokela)
published in Vaccine (Volume 24, Number 17, 3530-3537, April 24, 2006)
by Elsevier Publishers, received media coverage following a press release
issued on April 18, 2006 by the news bureau at the University of
Illinois. Media coverage included over sixty web sites, newspapers, and
professional magazines, including
The paper "Modeling Aviation Baggage Screening Security
Systems: A Case Study," (co-authored with J.E. Virta,
J.M. Bowman, J.E. Kobza, and J.J. Nestor) published
in IIE Transactions (Volume 35, Number 3, pages 259-269) was highlighted
in Research Reports in the February 2003 issue of Industrial Engineering,
the monthly professional magazine of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
On February 18, 2003, Sheldon
H. Jacobson and graduate student Laura A. McLay were
invited to discuss their research activities on aviation security on Focus 580 on public radio station AM580
in
The paper “Using Monte
Carlo Simulation to Determine Combination Vaccine Price Distributions for
Childhood Diseases,” (co-authored with E.C. Sewell) published in Health Care
Management Science (Volume 5, Number 2, April 2002) by Baltzer
Science Publishers, received media coverage following a press release issued on
April 8, 2002 by the news bureau at the University of Illinois. Media
coverage included
The paper “A New Neighborhood Function for Discrete
Manufacturing Process Design Optimization Using Generalized Hill Climbing
Algorithms,” (co-authored with D.E. Vaughan and D.E. Armstrong) published in ASME
Journal of Mechanical Design (Volume 122, Number 2, 164-171) was featured
in an article on October 20, 2000 focusing on new directions in manufacturing
research in Advanced Manufacturing Technology
(www.wiley.com/technical_insights).
The papers "An Integer
Programming Model for Vaccine Procurement and Delivery in the National
Childhood Immunization Program: A Pilot Study," (co-authored with E.C.
Sewell, R. Deuson, and B.G. Weniger)
published in Health Care Management Science (Volume 2, Number 1, January
1999) by Baltzer Science Publishers, and
"Addressing the Challenges to Immunization Practice with an Economic
Algorithm for Vaccine Selection," (co-authored with B.G. Weniger, R.T. Chen, E.C. Sewell, R. Deuson,
J.R. Livengood, and W.A. Orenstein) published in Vaccine
(Volume 16, Number 19) by Elsevier Science, received significant media coverage
following a press release issued on December 21, 1998 by Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University. Media coverage included