Congratulations to Abdelhakim Abdellaoui, PhD student at Polytechnique Montréal cosupervised by Issmail El Hallaoui and Loubna Benabbou, , was awarded the David Martell Student Paper Competition in Forestry at the 2025 CORS Conference.

GERAD is proud that the first edition of OR@Africa Day is published as a conference report on the INFORMS website. OR@Africa was founded in GERAD's seminar room in September 2023 by a group of GERAD students, accompanied by Professor Issmail El Hallaoui. Congratulations on your efforts and recognition, you richly deserve it, and we wish you all the best for the future.