title: WORMS Award
text: # WORMS Award
  
  The WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and Management Science is given annually by WORMS, the Forum on Women in OR/MS of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, to "a person who has contributed significantly to the advancement and recognition of women in the field of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (OR/MS)".
  
  ## Recipients
  
  The winners of the WORMS Award have included:
  
  | Name | Institution | Year |
  | - | - | - |
  | Cynthia Barnhart | MIT | 2005 |
  | Jane Ammons | Georgia Tech | 2005 |
  | Radhika Kulkarni | SAS Institute | 2006 |
  | Anna Nagurney | U. Mass. Amherst | 2007 |
  | Candace A. Yano | UC Berkeley | 2008 |
  | Alice E. Smith | Auburn | 2009 |
  | Brenda L. Dietrich | IBM | 2010 |
  | Berna Dengiz | Başkent Univ. | 2011 |
  | Vicki Sauter | U. Missouri–St. Louis | 2012 |
  | Kathryn Stecke | UT Dallas | 2013 |
  | Aleda Roth | Clemson | 2014 |
  | Margaret Brandeau | Stanford | 2015 |
  | Karen Smilowitz | Northwestern | 2016 |
  | Ruth J. Williams | UC San Diego | 2017 |
  | Susan M. Sanchez | Naval Postgraduate School | 2018 |
  | Laura Albert | U. Wisconsin | 2019 |
  | Sharon Arroyo | Boeing | 2019 |
  | Julie Ivy | NC State | 2020 |
  | Pınar Keskinocak | Georgia Tech | 2021 |
  | Georgia Perakis | MIT/Sloan School of Management | 2022 |
  | Ruchi Mahindru | IBM | 2022 |
  