{"id":61157,"date":"2013-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/business-students-create-award-winning-humanitarian-public-service-announcements-for-national-agency\/"},"modified":"2013-06-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T00:00:00","slug":"business-students-create-award-winning-humanitarian-public-service-announcements-for-national-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/business-students-create-award-winning-humanitarian-public-service-announcements-for-national-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Business students create award-winning humanitarian public service announcements for national agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tWinning entries can be viewed at http:\/\/www.psaid.org<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I., June 5, 2013 – 溏心vlog免费B站 business students are among the winners in both the broadcast and print categories of the 2013 PSAid: Public Service Announcements for International Disasters competition.<\/p>\n


\nStudents in Assistant Business Professor Koray \u00d6zpolat\u2019s spring operations and supply chain management course created public service announcements designed to encourage smart compassion. The spots inform the public that monetary donations to relief organizations are the smart way to help people affected by emergencies overseas. The contest is sponsored by the Center for International Disaster Information and the U.S. Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cMy students really went the extra mile,\u201d said \u00d6zpolat, who pointed out that his students study business, not communications and media. \u201cThey not only provided logistics wisdom, but also learned on their own how to make and edit videos to best communicate that wisdom to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nIn the broadcast category, the \u201cGive Smart\u201d video by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Angela Balzano of Warwick, Rachel Correra of Andover, Mass., Stephen Lambert of Narragansett, and Peter Lee of Warwick, came in second. The print PSA \u201cDon\u2019t Get Lost in the Clouds\u201d by Dan Dolben of North Andover, Mass., Stephen Gillissie of Cranston, and Sylvester Nyeswa of Pawtucket, came in third. Both spots reflected the importance of giving money instead of donating items. A panel of judges from the philanthropic, disaster relief, and communications fields selected the winning PSAs, which will be distributed nationally and can be viewed at: http:\/\/www.psaid.org.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe winners clearly illustrate the difference between honorable intentions and real-world outcomes of different types of donations in support of disaster relief,\u201d said CIDI Director Juanita M. Riling, director of the Center for International Disaster Information.<\/p>\n


\nPeter Lee, 21, said the winning video highlights aspects of a donation that people don\u2019t normally consider, such as the astronomical cost of storage and shipping. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe project reflects what I learned all semester,\u201d said Lee, a senior who recently changed his major from accounting to supply chain management, a growing field that controls the movement of a commodity from point of origin to point of demand. Born in Seoul, Korea, Lee is returning home this summer and planning to intern in the Korean steel industry. <\/p>\n


\nBusiness Assistant Dean Peg Ferguson Boyd said the opportunity to create the PSAs and share the message of smart compassion reflects the business college\u2019s philosophy of project-based learning that prepares students for their chosen professions.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cNot only are students learning theory, they are applying it to the workplace,\u201d she said. \u201cThese projects are resume building material and help clarify career choices.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nShe praised the social responsibility of the project, saying that the business world is about much more than Wall Street.<\/p>\n


\nFor \u00d6zpolat, the humanitarian side of supply chain management is critical. Before coming to 溏心vlog免费B站, \u00d6zpolat, who is from Turkey, worked for the United Nations in Jordan serving refugee camps in the Near East. What he saw there inspired him to continually look for ways to improve the living conditions of people in crisis. He recently oversaw a successful project that had 溏心vlog免费B站 business students working with engineering students to create a humanitarian calculator for the disaster information center.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe are helping to improve disaster relief,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is our social responsibility side and the students are helping to make a small change in the world.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Winning entries can be viewed at http:\/\/www.psaid.org KINGSTON, R.I., June 5, 2013 – 溏心vlog免费B站 business students are among the winners in both the broadcast and print categories of the 2013 PSAid: Public Service Announcements for International Disasters competition. Students in Assistant Business Professor Koray \u00d6zpolat\u2019s spring operations and supply chain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}