{"id":18689,"date":"2013-01-31T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=18689"},"modified":"2013-01-31T16:47:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:47:45","slug":"wsu-professor-who-saved-kroger-millions-a-finalist-for-top-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/01\/31\/wsu-professor-who-saved-kroger-millions-a-finalist-for-top-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU professor who saved Kroger millions a finalist for top prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/profiles\/company\/us\/oh\/dayton\/wright_state_university\/3221820\">Wright State University<\/a> engineering professor, who helped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/profiles\/company\/us\/oh\/cincinnati\/kroger_co\/2240866\">Kroger Co.<\/a> save $150 million annually through improved pharmacy logistics, is one of six finalists for a national research award<\/p>\n<p>The Franz Edelman Award for achievement in operations research will announce the winner on April 8, who will receive a $10,000 prize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the biggest competition in our field, and we don\u2019t have anything like a Nobel Prize, so it is the highest award in operations research,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/search\/results?q=Xinhui%20Zhang\">Xinhui Zhang<\/a>, a Wright State associate professor of biomedical, industrial and human factors engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/news\/2013\/01\/31\/wsu-professor-who-saved-kroger.html\">BizJournals.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt)) A Wright State University engineering professor, who helped Kroger Co. save $150 million annually through improved pharmacy logistics, is one of six finalists for a national research award The Franz Edelman Award for achievement in operations research will announce &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/01\/31\/wsu-professor-who-saved-kroger-millions-a-finalist-for-top-prize\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18691,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689\/revisions\/18691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}