We invite you to join us for the 2008 DSI Annual Meeting, to be held November 22-25 in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. The conference theme is “Improving Competitiveness through Information and Decision Sciences.” See special activities and a listing of journal editors who have expressed interest in attending the conference.

Every two years, DSI sponsors an international conference. The 2009 International DSI Meeting will be held June 24-27, 2009, in Nancy, France. Paper submission deadline is February 1, 2009. Program Chair is Minoo Tehrani, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA, mtehrani@rwu.edu. For more information, see http://internationaldsi.org/

See the current news publication for feature articles such as “Information Systems Education in Taiwan,” by Clive Sanford, National ChengChi University; “Clickers Adoption in a Small Class Setting,” by Bih-Ru Lea, Missouri University of Science and Technology; “Developing Strategies for Green Supply Chain Management,” by Dayna Simpson, Oregon State University, and Danny Samson, University of Melbourne; “Are Business Schools a Business? . . . Universities?”, by Dan R. Dalton, Indiana University; “Wanting Doctoral Students to Be Successful Researchers (Throughout Their Academic Careers),” by Xenophon Koufteros, Texas A&M University, and George Marcoulides, University of California-Riverside; “Ghemawat v. Friedman: Is the World Flat?”, by Beheruz N. Sethna, University of West Georgia; and a special remembrance of Claude McMillan, Jr.

President-Elect: Ram Narasimhan, Michigan State University
Treasurer: Christine T. Kydd, University of Delaware
At-Large Vice-Presidents:
Robert L. Andrews, Virginia Commonwealth University
Shaw K. Chen, University of Rhode Island
Gary Klein, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Marc Schniederjans, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Asia-Pacific Regionally-Elected Vice President: Linda G. Sprague, Rollins College
Midwest Regionally-Elected Vice President: Gene Fliedner, Oakland University
Northeast Regionally-Elected Vice President: R. Daniel Reid, University of New Hampshire
The ballot tabulation was audited and verified by DATAMATX, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia.

Ram Narasimhan