The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, a logistics and supply chain management professional organization, awarded Travis Kulpa the 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Award at its Academic Research Symposium on September 30, 2024, in Nashville. Kulpa, who received his Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in supply chain management from the University of Arkansas in May, was honored for his dissertation entitled “How Supply Chains Respond to Disruptions: Three Essays on Responses to Operational, Geopolitical, and Natural Disaster Disruptions.”
“We are immensely proud of our faculty, students, and alumni for their outstanding contributions to the field of supply chain management, as recognized by CSCMP at their Academic Research Symposium,” said Brian Fugate, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Research. “Their dedication and innovative research not only reflect the strength of our J.B. Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Management but also reinforce our commitment to shaping the future of supply chain excellence.”
At the symposium, several faculty, doctoral students and alumni of the J.B. Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Management at Walton College were recognized for their academic research including:
- Adriana Rossiter Hofer, associate professor, along with co-authors and U of A alumni Nicolò Masorgo, assistant professor at Oxford University, and Saif Mir, assistant professor at Lehigh University, were runners up in the 2024 Bernard J.
LaLonde Best Paper Award for “You're driving me crazy! How emotions elicited by negative
driver behaviors impact customer outcomes in last mile delivery.”
Publication: Journal of Business Logistics - Brian Fugate and Satabdi Hazarika, doctoral student, along with co-author and U of A alumna Ellie Falcone, assistant professor at Texas Christian University, were recognized as a Plowman Nominee for their paper “Going Moral with Going Green: An Investigation of Firm and Supply Base Sustainability Congruence on Firm Performance.”
- Finnegan McKinley, doctoral student, John Aloysius, professor and Oren Harris Chair in Logistics, and Adrian Rossiter Hofer, associate professor, along with alumna Rebekah Brau, assistant professor at Brigham Young University, were also recognized as a Plowman Nominee for their paper “Using Ai-Based Systems for Supply Chain Demand Planning: The Effect of Algorithm Performance on User Vigilance.”
Since 2013, Lori McLemore has served as the marketing and communications officer for
the Sam M. Walton College of Business. In this role, she writes press releases and
features articles to promote the work of students, faculty and staff. 
