For Immediate Release December 7, 2004

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IU Kelley School of Business-Indianapolis Student Wins International Research Competition

INDIANAPOLIS - Amanda Pinkston, a senior at IU Kelley School of Business on the IUPUI campus, has been named the winner of the APICS-The Association for Operations Management's Donald Fogarty International Student Paper Competition.  Her entry, "RFID: An Analysis of a Controversial Technology," was chosen from thousands of entries worldwide.

"Amanda tackled a major issue for our nation's major distributors," said Mark E. Ippolito, senior lecturer at Kelley-Indianapolis.  "RFID (radio frequency identification) promises to make inventory management more efficient.  Wal-Mart has already mandated this technology.  Amanda's research cuts through some of the hype to get to the current state of this new technology, including its limitations."

Pinkston is a native of Brownsburg, Indiana and is majoring in accounting and finance at IU Kelley-Indianapolis

APICS-The Association for Operations Management is a not-for-profit international education organization respected throughout the world for its education and professional certification programs designed to increase workplace performance. ###