CTUP News
2009
The Center for Transportation and Urban Planning is Currently Accepting Applications for the 2009 CTUP Student of the Year and the 2009 USDOT Student of the Year Awards
Transportation engineering students and civil or environmental engineering graduate students involved in transportation research are invited to apply for the Center for Transportation and Urban Planning (CTUP) Student of the Year Award. The Winner of the CTUP student of the year competition will receive a certificate of achievement, $500 for travel to TRB, will be recognized at annual CUTC meeting at TRB and be recognized in a feature in CTUP Footprint newsletter. Students may apply by electronically submitting the materials described in the announcement as single pdf to Vivian Castelli (vivianc@engr.uconn.edu) by October 9, 2009. Click here for the 2009 CTUP Student of the Year Award Announcement and Application Form.
Transportation engineering students and civil or environmental engineering graduate students involved in transportation research are also invited to apply to represent the UConn transportation program for the USDOT Student of the Year Award. The Winner of this competition will receive a certificate of achievement, receive a $500 stipend for travel to TRB or other transportation conference, and will be recognized in a feature in CTUP Footprint newsletter. The winner will also represent UConn as the nominee for the USDOT student of the year competition. The nominee will compete against other students in the New England Region University Transportation Center (NEUTC) for the USDOT student of the year award. Each regional winner receives (in addition to above) a plaque, $1,000, travel expenses to TRB, and recognition during the CUTC awards banquet held at TRB each year. Students may apply by electronically submitting the materials described in the announcement as a single pdf to Vivian Castelli (vivianc@engr.uconn.edu) by October 9, 2009. Click here for the 2009 USDOT Student of the Year Award Announcement and Application Form.
The Summer/Fall Issue of CTUP Footprint Newsletter is Now Available
In this issue:
- Index for Transportation Sustainability: Moving beyond Mobility in Assessing Transportation
- Director Joins National Experts for Sustainable Mobility Workshop
- CTUP Seed Money at Work
- Studying Attitudes about Nantucket Summer Transportation
- Researchers to Study Access and Mobility Impact of Freeway Removal
- Community Design, Road Safety and Transportation Sustainability
- Graduate Degrees Awarded to CTUP Students
- 2009 Eisenhower Awards to Transportation Students
- CTUP Welcomes Visiting Graduate Fellow
- Marshall Bids Farewell to Join UC Denver Faculty
The Winter/Spring Issue of CTUP Footprint Newsletter is Now Available
In this issue:
- The CTUP Research Program: Smart Growth Challenges Tackled from Multi-disciplinary Perspectives
- UConn Hosts Innovative Recruiting Event at TRB Annual Meeting
- Transportation Lab Update
- CTUP Researchers Honored by TRB
- Researching Traffic Safety and Sustainability in Sweden
- Wesley Marshall Selected Outstanding Student of the Year for 2008
- UConn Alumna Selected Transport Northwest Student of the Year
2008
The Latest Issue of the CTUP Newsletter is Now Available
The Center for Transportation and Urban Planning is pleased to announce the premier issue of our semiannual newsletter, CTUP Footprint. In this issue, you'll find information on:
- CTUP faculty Carol Atkinson-Palombo and Nicholas Lownes
- CTUP Student of the Year, Eric Jackson
- Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship recipient, Wesley Marshall
- CTUP's transportation lab
- and more
CTUP Sponsors Visit by John Norquist, Renowned Speaker and Author
The Center for Transportation and Urban Planning is pleased to sponsor the visit of John Norquist to Hartford and New Haven. Mr. Norquist is one of the world's foremost experts on urban planning and transportation. He is an internationally-renowned speaker who has been a passionate advocate for reversing the corrosive effects that highways have had on our cities. As mayor of Milwaukee, he succeeded in removing a freeway, clearing the way for an anticipated $250 million investment in infill development. He has also been instrumental in advancing similar projects in Seattle, Buffalo and Glasgow, Scotland. Mr. Norquist, now President of the Congress for the New Urbanism and author of "The Wealth of Cities," will speak Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. at the Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street. In New Haven he will speak on Wednesday April 16, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. at Career High School, 140 Legion Avenue. Both events are free and open to the public.
CTUP Director Part of Scoping Team in Sierra Leone
CTUP Director, Norman W. Garrick, was part of scoping team in July to Freetown, Sierra Leone with the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment (UK) to develop a project to aid in the growth and development of Freetown which is under tremendous growth pressure following the end of the decade long civil war in that country. The project was initiated by Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, following his visit to Freetown in November 2006.
During their visit, Dr. Garrick and the Foundation's team toured the entire metropolitan area - from the elegant but decaying downtown area, to the ghettos built on fill in the bays near the center, and to the acres of unauthorized housing decimating the forests on the mountains surrounding the city. The team also met with the President of Sierra Leone, Ahmad Kabbah, who spoke of the many pressures and depravations resulting from the unprecedented rate of urban growth in Freetown over the last decade. The next step in this on-going Prince's Foundation project in Freetown will be a weeklong design workshop focusing one or two specific projects that were selected based on the scoping study. This design workshop is slated to be held in Freetown in early in 2008.
Jackson Named CTUP's Student of the Year
The CTUP proudly named Eric Jackson as the Center's first University Transportation Center (UTC) Student of the Year. Jackson, who defended his Ph.D. in December, joined Students of the Year from UTC's across the country honored at an awards ceremony during TRB week in January. The annual Student of the Year Awards, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, recognize outstanding students in transportation-related fields for their achievements and promise for future contributions to transportation technology.
Marshall Selected as Eisenhower Transportation Fellow
Transportation engineering doctoral candidate and CTUP affiliated researcher, Wesley Marshall, was awarded a 2007 Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship by the National Highway Institute. The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program was established in 1991 and is awarded to top students nationwide pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines.