Abstract for: Dana Meadows Award Announcement

Please see the "Paper" file for the speech given at the conference announcing the award winners. The 2008 winner of the Dana Meadows Student Award for the best student paper presented at the annual conference is Antuela Anthi Tako in the ORMS Group at the Warwick Business School, for the paper titled " Model formulation in System Dynamics and Discrete-event Simulation: a quantitative comparison"

2008 Honorable Mentions ( equally ranked): Navid Ghaffarzadegan  at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY for his paper #466 “Effect of Conditional Feedback on Learning” and Hyunjung Kim at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY for her paper “Broadening boundary perception in a multi-organizational context: Study of a community mental health program in New York State”