Awards
RASC Scholarships
Three UCLA MURP students received scholarships from the Railway Association of Southern California, an organization dedicated to supporting both undergraduate and graduate students in the rail transportation industry. The three winning students were Annie Chan, Casey Chung, and Micah Wilcox.
APTF Scholarship Awards
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) awarded over $340,000 total in scholarships for the 2024–25 academic year to students who plan to pursue careers related to public transit. Seven graduate students from UCLA were selected from a large nationwide pool of applicants.
- Luis Garcia Chavez – Richard J. Bouchard/AECOM Scholarship
- Rodrigo Gutierrez – Jerome C. Premo Scholarship
- Casey Chung – APTF Board Scholarship
- Rebecca Saavedra Swint – James “Jim” Cowen Scholarship
- Micah Wilcox – APTF Board Scholarship
- Jasmine Law – APTF Board Scholarship
- Yu-Chen Chu – APTF Board Scholarship
APA Awards
Three sections of the American Planning Association in California, along with the overall state chapter, recognized six UCLA master’s capstone projects and one research report by UCLA and UC Davis researchers. All the awards were given for the academic category.
In the Los Angeles section, Anne Yoon MURP ’23 received an Award of Excellence for her capstone, “Bus Shelter Equity: A Study of the Distribution of Bus Shelters in Los Angeles County and Unincorporated Communities.” Elena Savignano MURP ’23 and Shelly Quan MURP ’21 both received Awards of Merit for their capstone projects, “Change for the Meter: Exploring the Equity Implications of Market-priced Parking,” and “California Government Screening Maps: An Investigation into Geographic Prioritization in Support of State Climate and Planning Goals,” respectively.
The Northern Section of APA California gave two awards to recent UCLA alumni who completed projects for San Francisco clients. Lena Rogow MURP ’21 received an Award of Excellence for her capstone, “Assessing Public Outreach about Slow Streets in San Francisco.” Ryan Caro MURP ’22 received an Award of Merit for “Using Data Science for Equity at SFMTA.”
The Sacramento Valley Section of APA California recognized a report published in 2023 by 16 scholars from UCLA and UC Davis. “The Implications of Freeway Siting in California: Four Case Studies on the Effects of Freeways on Neighborhoods of Color” received an Award of Excellence.
At the state level, Yoon again received the Award of Excellence recognition for her project on bus shelter equity. And Kimberly Venegas MURP ‘22 received an Award of Merit for her capstone project,” Take The High (Volume) Road: Analyzing The Safety and Speed Effects of High Traffic Volume Road Diets.”
CPF Scholarship Awards
The California Planning Foundation awarded scholarships to three different UCLA students this fall:
- Luis Rodrigo Garcia Chavez – Los Angeles Section Award
- Allison Samsel – Los Angeles Section Award
- Eisha Shakeel – Los Angeles Section Award
CTF Scholarship Awards
The California Transportation Foundation awarded Veronica De Santos, a graduate student studying Transportation Policy and Planning, with the CTF Graduate School Scholarship for her excellence and passion in pursuing a degree in the Transportation field.
ITE Student Chapter Award
At the 2024 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Western District Annual Meeting, the UCLA chapter of ITE was given the Student Chapter Award. The award is presented to the student chapter which “demonstrat[es] a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through chapter activities, policies, and initiatives.”
ASCE PSWS Transportation Award
At the 2024 ASCE Pacific Southwest Symposium hosted by the University of Hawaii, Manoa, UCLA undergraduate civil engineering students participated in the Transportation Design Competition which regarded the redesign of an arterial road for pedestrian safety. The UCLA team received the second place award.
PlaceWorks Scholarship
Miles Kim Parr was one of two students who received the PlaceWorks Scholarship. Parr is a graduate student at UCLA, pursuing a Master of Urban and Regional Planning with a concentration in Design and Development.
Monisha Reginald MURP ’24 and Carolyn Pugh MURP ’4 received the top prizes this year from ITS for their master’s capstone projects. Reginald received the Grand Prize for her project, “Progress, Priorities, and Obstacles to Providing Adequate Shade and Lighting at Bus Stops,” which was completed for her client, Kounkuey Design Initiative. Pugh received the Transportation Equity & Justice Prize for her project on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Rochester’s Inner Loop Freeway-to-Boulevard Project.” A total of seven projects, including two master’s theses, were recognized by ITS for their contributions to their clients and the field.
Leaders Development Conference Fellowship
Amy Lee, a postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, has been named a Leaders Development Conference (LDC) Fellow by the Eno Center for Transportation. Selected from the top graduate students in transportation nationwide, LDC Fellows get an insider’s view of transportation policymaking in Washington, D.C.
TRB Awards
Madeline Wander received the Eisenhower Fellowship’s “Top Rated Doctoral Fellow” at this year’s Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.
Madeline is a UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Urban Planning PhD candidate and a graduate student researcher at the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. Her doctoral research examines transportation disparities and justice amidst the changing geography of low-income communities of color, particularly in suburbs.
CUTC Awards
During a Jan. 6 ceremony by the Council of University Transportation Centers, UCLA students received national research awards. Monisha Reginald was recognized as the PSR Student of the Year. Anne Yoon, MURP ‘23 received the Neville A. Parker Award for best master’s project. Also recognized was postdoctoral scholar Amy Lee, who received the Charley V. Wootan Memorial Award for best doctoral dissertation for her recently completed PhD from UC Davis.
Friedrich Willhelm Bessel Research Award
Adam Millard-Ball received the Friedrich Willhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award is given every year to approximately 20 internationally renowned academics from abroad in recognition of their outstanding accomplishment in research. Professor Millard-Ball is well known internationally for his pioneering research in environmental planning and policy, which has advanced our understanding of urban sustainability and climate change mitigation significantly. His innovative approaches to studying high-resolution data on urban form and transport patterns at the intersection of urban planning and environmental impact are widely recognized and respected.
PSR UTC Students of the Year
Second-year MURP student Monisha Reginald was recognized by the Pacific Southwest Region UTC as 2023 Outstanding Student of the Year for her accomplishments in transportation and policy research and statistical analysis. She will receive the award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. in January. Learn more >>
Graduate student Alejandra Rios Gutierrez was recognized by the PSR UTC as the 2023 Master’s Student of the Year. Alejandra is currently pursuing dual master’s degrees in urban & regional planning and Latin American Studies. Learn more >>
Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program
Each year, the U.S. Department of Transportation chooses 150-200 students nationwide pursuing degrees in transportation-related fields to be Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) fellows. The DDETFP has awarded over $50 million total to students since the program began in 1983. For the 2023-24 academic year, six students from UCLA were selected for the competitive fellowship:
- Madeline Wander, doctoral student in urban planning
- Samuel Speroni, doctoral student in urban planning
- tamika butler, doctoral student in urban planning
- Yu Hong Hwang, doctoral student in urban planning
- Alejandra Rios Gutierrez, MURP graduate student
- Lilith Winkler-Schor, MURP graduate student
The Los Angeles chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS-LA) awarded five UCLA graduate students scholarships for the 2023-24 academic year. Along with financial support, WTS-LA aims to mentor, support and connect women pursuing transportation planning and engineering. The five awardees were honored at an annual gala in November.
- Monisha Reginald, Myra L. Frank Memorial & SCAG Graduate Scholarship
- Alejandra Rios Gutierrez, AECOM Richard S. Newman Scholarship
- Yu-Chen Chu, Berg & Associates, Inc. Scholarship
- Casey Chung, Kimley-Horn Scholarship
- Rebecca Saavedra Swint, WTS-LA & The Solis Group Scholarship
COMTO Scholarship
Yu-Chen Chu ’24 was awarded the Systra Scholarship by the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO), one of the competitive national scholarships COMTO awards to minority graduate and undergraduate students. COMTO aims to support minority individuals, veterans, and people with disabilities pursuing transportation-related careers through training, professional development, financial support, advocacy, and networking opportunities.
APTF Scholarships
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) awarded over $300,000 total in scholarships for the 2023-24 academic year to students who plan to pursue careers related to public transit. Five graduate students from UCLA were selected from a large nationwide pool of applicants.
- Shaellen Franco, Shirley DeLibero Scholarship
- Yu-Chen Chu, American with Disabilities Act (ADA) Scholarship
- Rodrigo Gutierrez, Latinos in Transit/MV Transportation Scholarship
- Casey Chung, APTF Board Scholarship
- Alejandra Rios Gutierrez, James “Jim” Cowen Scholarship
Anne Yoon MURP ’23, Greer Cowan MURP ’23 and Pearl Liu MURP ’23 received the top prizes this year from ITS for their master’s capstone projects. Yoon received the Grand Prize for her project, “Bus Shelter Equity: A Study of the Distribution of Bus Shelters in Los Angeles County and Unincorporated Communities,” which was completed for her client, Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell of the 2nd District in Los Angeles County. Cowan and Liu received the Transportation Equity & Justice Prize for their project on behalf of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, “Rethinking Transit Safety: Understanding and Addressing Gender-Based Harassment and Enhancing Safety on San Francisco’s Muni System.” A total of eight projects were recognized by ITS for their contributions to their clients and the field.
Railway Association of Southern California Scholarship
Three undergraduate students in engineering received scholarships from the Railway Association of Southern California, which supports students and professionals in the rail transportation industry. The three students were Rudie Paraiso, Sean Choi and Brennan Orman.
APA Awards
The Los Angeles Section of the American Planners Association awarded two 2022 MURP graduates for their master’s capstone projects. Kimberly Venegas MURP ’22 received an Award of Excellence for her project, “Take the High (Volume) Road: Analyzing the Safety and Speed Effects of High-Traffic Volume Road Diets.” Nataly Rios Gutierrez MURP ’22 received an Award of Merit for her project titled “Transportation Challenges to Healthcare: Evaluating the Transportation Needs of Patients at Saban Community Clinic.” Rios Gutierrez received another Award of Merit for the project from the American Planners Association California Chapter.
PSR UTC Doctoral Student of the Year
Qinhua Jiang, a Ph.D. student in transportation engineering, received the Pacific Southwest Region UTC 2022 doctoral student of the year award, presented to him at the PSR Annual Congress in March. Jiang was recognized for his research contributions and leadership qualities.
California Transportation Foundation Board Scholarship
Shaun Howard, an undergraduate student studying civil engineering, received a California Transportation Foundation Board Scholarship. CTF scholarships are awarded to students who demonstrate academic excellence and a commitment to the transportation field.
APA Transportation Planning Division Small Grant
Keenan Do, a second-year UCLA master’s student in urban planning, was awarded a small grant by the APA Transportation Planning Division. He won the grant for his project “Second Pace: Insurgent Transit Planning: The Potential for Worker-Rider Alliances in the East Bay Area and Los Angeles.” The APA TPD grant recognizes those who are advancing the field of transportation.
Three UCLA urban planning students were awarded national transportation research awards by the Council of University Transportation Centers at a Jan. 7 ceremony. Julene Paul, a doctoral candidate, was recognized as the Outstanding Student of the Year in the Pacific Southwest Region UTC. Miriam Pinski Ph.D. ’22 was awarded the Charley V. Wootan Memorial Award for best doctoral dissertation in the field of transportation policy and planning. Nataly Rios Gutierrez MURP ’22 received the Neville A. Parker Award for best non-thesis master’s project in transportation planning.
Zephyr Rising Star Award
Tierra Bills, assistant professor of public policy and civil and environmental engineering, received the Zephyr Rising Star Award at the Zephyr Foundation’s annual reception at TRB on Jan. 10. The Rising Star Award is given to an early career professional whose work best aligns with the Zephyr Foundation’s mission of advancing equitable transportation and land use decision-making.
TRB Research Awards
Two papers by UCLA researchers received awards at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 102nd annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 10. “Take the High (Volume) Road: Analyzing the Safety and Speed Effects of High-Traffic Volume Road Diets,” a master’s project by Kimberly Venegas MURP ’22, won the distinction of “The Best of the Best Performance Effects of Geometric Design.” Venegas’s research showed that road diets in Los Angeles on roads with high average daily traffic levels improved safety and only slightly decreased traffic speeds.
A nationwide study of transit ridership and finance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic conducted by Fariba Siddiq, Jacob Wasserman, Brian Taylor, and Sam Speroni, “Transit’s Financial Prognosis: Findings from a Survey of U.S. Transit Systems During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” was recognized as the “Best of Transit Management and Performance” papers.
Doctoral student Tamika Butler was also awarded Best Panel Presentation at the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship 2023 Research Showcase.
Seaside Prize
Donald Shoup, distinguished research professor of urban planning, will be honored as the 2023 Seaside Prize recipient at an annual prize weekend in Seaside, Florida, in February for his groundbreaking work on parking policy. The Seaside Prize recognizes individuals who have changed the way we live through design and thought innovation.
Seven UCLA women were awarded scholarships for the 2022-23 academic year in recognition of their achievements in transportation-related studies by the Los Angeles chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar, or WTS-LA.
- Lucie Wu, Myra L. Frank Memorial Scholarship
- Greer Cowan, Myra L. Frank Memorial Scholarship
- Adria Stauber, BYD Build Your Dreams Scholarship
- Shaellen Franco, WTS-LA & Psomas Graduate Scholarship
- Yasmina Yusef, WTS-LA & Mott MacDonald Graduate Scholarship
- Katrina Deloso, WTS-LA & Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Equity in Transportation Scholarship
- Sophia Balkovski, Ava Doner Memorial Scholarship
Eisenhower Fellowships
The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. This program advances the transportation workforce by helping to attract the nation’s brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advanced degrees, and helping to retain top talent in the U.S. transportation industry. Since its start in 1983, the program has awarded more than $50 million to transportation fellows.
Eight UCLA students received an Eisenhower Fellowship this year:
- Quinn Haaga, MURP Student
- Keenan Do, MURP Student
- Rebecca Swint, MURP Student
- Samuel Speroni, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Hannah King, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Madeline Wander, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Julene Paul, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Tamika Butler, doctoral student in Urban Planning
Two UCLA masters in urban and regional planning students, a UCLA undergraduate in public affairs, and an undergraduate in civil and environmental engineering received scholarships from the Railway Association of Southern California, an organization dedicated to supporting both undergraduate and graduate students in the rail transportation industry. The four winning students were Lucie Wu, Shaellen Franco, Olive Long, and Joshua Tomoyasu.
California Planning Foundation
California Planning Foundation scholarships are awarded to outstanding planning students enrolled at eligible professional planning degree programs in California, and seeking to enter the planning profession in California after graduation. Three UCLA transportation students received scholarships this year:
Nicole Matteson, Statewide Distinguished Merit Award
George Karam, Los Angeles Section Award
Vannesa Reyes Salazar, Los Angeles Section Award
Intelligent Transportation Society of California and CTF 2022 Scholarship
Purva Kapshikar, MURP graduate student, received a scholarship from the Intelligent Transportation Society of California and the California Transportation Foundation. This scholarship is awarded to deserving students studying and pursuing a career in intelligent transportation systems.
APTF Board Scholarships
Eight UCLA transportation students won 2022 American Public Transportation Foundation scholarships, issued to students and professionals interested in a career in public transportation:
Keenan Do
Roberto Diaz
Yasmina Yusuf
Shaellen Franco
Bailey Lai
Pearl Liu
Fariba Siddiq
Rebecca Swint
2022 ITS Capstone Prizes
Kimberley Venegas and Nataly Rios Gutierrez were awarded the 2022 grand prize awards for their MURP capstone projects. Venegas won the ITS Capstone Prize for her project “Take the High (Volume) Road,” which found that even in regards to high ADT corridors, safety pay-offs of road diets far outweighed the impacts on speed. Rios Gutierrez ‘s project, “Transportation Challenges to Healthcare,” won the Transportation Equity & Justice Capstone Prize. Further capstone awards are here.
APA Awards
APA California
- Academic Award of Merit for Asiya Patel, MURP ’21
APA Los Angeles
- Academic Award of Excellence for Jayne Vidheecharoen, MURP ‘21
- Academic Award of Merit for Asiya Patel, MURP ‘21
- Communiciations Initiative Award of Merit for Transfers Magazine
- Advancing Diversity and Social Change Award of Excellence for Changing Lanes: A Gender Equity Transportation Study for Los Angeles
APA Northern California
- Academic Award of Excellence for Homelessness in Transit Environments
APA Sustain
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Student Award of Excellence for Jayne Vidheecharoen, MURP ‘21
2022 Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The Haynes Foundation’s doctoral dissertation fellowships are awarded to students whose dissertation proposals address economic, social, policy or political problems of the Los Angeles area. They include a $26,000 prize. This year’s winners include:
- Chris Giamarino, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Miriam Pinski, doctoral student in Urban Planning
Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award for 2020-2021
UCLA research professor Paul Ong was awarded the prestigious Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award in Community Service / Environmental Justice. Presented on behalf of the California Air Resources Board, the award acknowledged a lifetime of important contributions and achievements in the field.
UCLA Rising Star Award
UCLA ITS’s operation manager Whitney Willis has been named this year’s Rising Star awardee by the UCLA Administrative Management Group, in partnership with Campus Human Resources. Willis, who has been at ITS since 2016, was chosen because of her potential to make a positive impact, establish a leadership role, and pursue both training and development opportunities.
JAPA Best Article
A paper by professor Evelyn Blumenberg and urban planning doctoral student Hannah King received the 2022 Article of the Year Award by the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA). In “Jobs-Housing Balance Re-Re-Visited,” Blumenberg and King examined the functional balance between housing and employment opportunities in nearly 400 California municipalities.
YPT International Excellence in Innovation/Research Award
The researchers on the ITS project “Monitoring and Adjusting Transit Service during a Pandemic,” Hao Ding, Sam Speroni, Julene Paul, Eric Dasmalchi, Yu Hong Hwang, Tianxing Dai, and Maya Desai, won the Young Professionals in Transportation’s International Excellence in Innovation/Research Award. For the project, they developed an interactive visualization tool to see how transit service changed, reviewed extensive research on disease transmission on transit, interviewed and surveyed practitioners to understand organizational inputs into service changes, used the spatial analysis of changes in transit supply and demand to evaluate the equity implications of service changes, wrote a white paper comparing “crowding” definitions, and tracked news and industry updates to keep the team abreast of changes in the transit industry’s pandemic response.
Eisenhower Fellowships
The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. This program advances the transportation workforce by helping to attract the nation’s brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advanced degrees, and helping to retain top talent in the U.S. transportation industry. Since its start in 1983, the program has awarded more than $50 million to transportation fellows.
Seven UCLA students received an Eisenhower Fellowship this year:
- Antara Murshed, MURP student
- Benjamin Silverstein, MURP student
- Madeline Wander, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Samuel Speroni, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Miriam Pinski, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Julene Paul, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Hannah King, doctoral student in Urban Planning
WTS Scholarships
Five UCLA women were honored this year in recognition of their achievements in transportation-related studies by the Los Angeles chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar, or WTS-LA.
- Fariba Siddiq, Myra L. Frank Memorial Scholarship ($8,000)
- Madeline Wander, WTS-LA Board Director’s Scholarship ($5,000)
- Kimberly Venegas, California Transportation Fund (CTF) Scholarship ($5,000)
- Nataly Rios, Stantec Equity in Transportation Scholarship ($5,000)
- Alejandra Rios, WTS-LA & SCAG Equity in Transportation Scholarship ($4,500)
In Orange County, the WTS-OC chapter awarded one of their annual Tier 1 scholarships to Karen Phan.
2021 PSR Doctoral Student of the Year
Julene Paul, a doctoral student at UCLA, was awarded the Pacific Southwest Region’s 2021 Doctoral Student of the Year award. The PSR is led by the University of Southern California and includes seven partners: Long Beach State University; UC Davis; UC Irvine; UCLA; University of Hawaii; Northern Arizona University; and Pima Community College.
North American Rail Shippers Association
Connor Bente, UCLA graduate student, received a scholarship from the North American Rail Shippers Association. NARS Scholarships are offered to support deserving students pursuing majors within the greater transportation, logistics or supply chain management industries and who will contribute to the future growth of the rail shipping community.
APA Awards
APA California
- Planning Pioneer Award for Distinguished Professor Emeritus Martin Wachs
- Academic Award of Merit for Transit Blues in the Golden State
- Communications Initiative Award of Merit for Transfers Magazine
APA Los Angeles
- Planning Landmark Award for the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium
- Planning Pioneer Award for Distinguished Professor Emeritus Martin Wachs
- Academic Award of Excellence for Sam Speroni, MURP ‘20
- Academic Award of Merit for Mark Hansen, MURP ‘20
APA Northern California
- Academic Award of Merit for Maddy Ruvolo, MURP ‘20
- Best Practices Award of Merit for What’s Behind Recent Transit Ridership Trends in the Bay Area?
APA Inland Empire
- Academic Award of Excellence for Transit Blues in the Golden State
APA Sacramento Valley
- Academic Award of Excellence for Transit Blues in the Golden State
APA Central Coast
- Academic Award of Merit for Transit Blues in the Golden State
APA Orange County Daniel Chuong Scholarship
The Orange County chapter of the American Planning Association awarded Karen Phan (MURP ‘22) with their Young and Emerging Planners Scholarship in Memory of Daniel Chuong.
2021 ITS Capstone Prizes
Shelly Quan and Jayne Vidheecharoen were awarded the 2021 grand prize awards for their MURP capstone projects. Quan won the ITS Capstone Prize for her project “California Government Screening Maps: An Investigation into Geographic Prioritization in Support of State Climate and Planning Goals,” which analyzed how often these planning tools complement or conflict with one another in their quest to meet the state’s climate and planning goals. Vidheecharoen’s project, “Equity Lenses: Targeting Equitable Community Investment Across Southern California,” won the inaugural Excellence in a Transportation Equity & Justice Capstone Prize. Further capstone awards are here.
CTF Organized Research Program of the Year
At the 32nd annual California Transportation Foundation awards, UC ITS was awarded the Organized Research Program of the Year for its COVID-19 Response and Recovery Research Program.
In late March 2020, each UC ITS branch (LA, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine) started work on a series of research projects relating to the pandemic’s impact on transportation in California. Ultimately, 18 different projects were started; UCLA ITS was responsible for nearly half of them. CTF recognized the whole of UC ITS for its efforts on this research initiative.
Student Chapter Momentum Award
At the 2021 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Western District Annual Meeting, the ITE branch at UCLA was given the Student Chapter Momentum Award, presented to the student chapter “that has experienced the greatest momentum (or most improvement) in the past year.”
APTF Board Scholarships
Eleven UCLA transportation students won 2021 American Public Transportation Foundation scholarships, issued to students and professionals interested in a career in public transportation:
Connor Bente (Donald C. Hyde Memorial Essay Contest winner)
Douglas Arseneault (ADA 25th Anniversary Scholarship)
Aziz Fellague Ariouat (Valarie J. McCall Scholarship)
Andrew Jarnagin (Raymond C. Miller Scholarship)
Julene Paul (Dr. George M. Smerk Scholarship)
Karen Phan (BMBG/Janie Wulkan Memorial Scholarship)
Nataly Rios (Reba Malone Scholarship)
Yasmina Yusuf (Richard J. Bouchard-AECOM Scholarship)
Keenan Do
Alejandra Rios
Fariba Siddiq
CPF Scholarships
The California Planning Foundation awarded 10 scholarships to eight different UCLA students this fall. The transportation students are:
- Karen Phan – Richard Weaver Memorial Scholarship and Los Angeles Section Scholarship
- Andrew Jarnagin – Los Angeles Section Scholarship
- Elizabeth Owen – California Planning Roundtable Scholarship
RASC Scholarships
Three UCLA masters in urban planning students received scholarships from the Railway Association of Southern California, an organization dedicated to supporting both undergraduate and graduate students in the rail transportation industry. The three winning students were Connor Bente, Elizabeth Owen, and Karen Phan.
The Railway Association of Southern California is committed to supporting students seeking careers in the rail transportation industry. Three UCLA students received 2020 RASC scholarships:
- Fariba Siddiq, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Jan Yonan, MURP student
- Nathan Vardas, B.S., Civil Engineering student
Sam Speroni MURP ‘20, who’s currently pursuing a doctorate in urban planning at UCLA, won the Neville A. Parker Award for his capstone project, “School Transportation Equity for Vulnerable Student Populations through Ridehailing: An Analysis of HopSkipDrive and Other Trips to School in Los Angeles County.”
The award is given annually by the Council of University Transportation Centers to two recipients for the best master’s project in either policy and planning, or science and technology. Since 2002, a UCLA student has won it 10 times.
The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. This program advances the transportation workforce by helping to attract the nation’s brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advanced degrees, and helping to retain top talent in the U.S. transportation industry. Since its beginning in 1983, the program has awarded more than $50 million to transportation fellows.
Ten UCLA students received an Eisenhower Fellowship this year:
- Eric Dasmalchi, MURP student
- Yu Hong Hwang, MURP student
- Hannah King, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Edgar Mejia, MURP student
- Julene Paul, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Miriam Pinski, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Lena Rogow, MURP student
- Samuel Speroni, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Alexandra Weber, MURP student
- Timothy Wickland, doctoral student in Urban Planning
Lee Schipper Scholarship
UCLA doctoral student Fariba Siddiq received the Lee Schipper Scholarship from the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations for her proposal “Cross-Cultural Gender Differences in Travel: Ride-Hailing’s Emerging Role.” Her research will analyze gender differences in ride-hailing experiences in Los Angeles and Dhaka, Bangladesh, and explore how burgeoning ride-hailing services affect safe and independent movement of women. (Read more >>)
PSR Student of the Year Awards
The Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center honored two UCLA students for their Student of the Year awards. Doctoral student Sam Speroni MURP ‘20 received the UTC Student of the Year award, and Bing Lin Nyang MURP ‘20 received the Master’s Student of the Year award. The awards recognize students across the eight PSR campuses: Cal State Long Beach, Northern Arizona University, Pima Community College, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, University of Hawaii, and USC.
APA California Award
Katelyn Stangl MURP ‘19 received the Academic Merit Award from the California chapter of the American Planning Association for her capstone project Parking? Lots! Parking over the Minimum in the City of Los Angeles. She worked with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning to examine how developers respond to minimum parking requirements, and how changing parking requirements can make LA more walkable, less polluted, and better designed.
APTF Scholarships
The American Public Transportation Foundation awards scholarships to students who demonstrate a continued interest in a career in the public transportation industry, high academic achievement, and need for financial assistance. This year, APTF recognized six UCLA transportation scholars:
- Doug Arsenault, MURP student
- Benjamin Bressette, MURP student
- Tamara Mahadi, MURP student
- Edgar Mejia, MURP student
- Julene Paul, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Nataly Rios Gutierrez, MURP student
Young Professionals in Transportation Excellence Awards
Jacob Wasserman MURP ‘19 and research project manager for UCLA ITS, won the Young Professionals in Transportation Excellence in Innovation/Research of the Year for his study Transit Blues in the Golden State: Analyzing Recent California Ridership Trends. The study examined ridership trends in California and in the Bay Area to understand the factors causing the ridership drop and how to best recover from it. UCLA postdoctoral researcher Andrew Schouten PhD ‘19, doctoral students Hannah King and Julene Paul, and recent graduates Madeline Ruvolo MURP ‘20 were also recognized for their contributions to the study.
Women’s Transportation Seminar scholarships
The Los Angeles chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar, or WTS-LA, awarded scholarships to second-year urban planning graduate students Shelly Quan and Samikchhya (Sami) Bhusal in recognition of their transportation studies. In 2020, WTS-LA awarded $100,000 to women in high school, community college, undergraduate, and graduate programs.
The neighboring chapter, WTS-Orange County, recognized first-year graduate student Karen Phan for her studies in transportation.
CTF research program of the year
During its 31st Annual Transportation Awards, the California Transportation Foundation recognized UCLA ITS’ study on Bay Area Transit Ridership. “What’s Behind Recent Transit Ridership Trends in the Bay Area?” won the 2019 “Organized Research Program of the Year” award.
The report analyzed ridership across eight transit agencies in the Bay Area from 2008-2018. The data the researchers collected found that ridership losses were most pronounced on buses, at off-peak times, on weekends, in non-commute directions, on outlying lines, and on transit operators that do not serve the region’s core jobs clusters. In other words, transit trips in the region are increasingly commute-focused, particularly into and out of downtown San Francisco.
APA Los Angeles Awards
A research project by Katelyn Stangl MURP ‘19, entitled “Parking? Lots! Parking Over the Minimum in Los Angeles,” was honored with the American Planning Association Los Angeles’ 2020 award for academic excellence for work conducted as part of master’s capstone project. Stangl’s research set out to help pave the way for parking minimum reform by investigating why a developer would build over parking minimums.
Among the other APA Los Angeles award recipients were the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs with the landmark award to mark 50 years of UCLA’s urban planning department and its contributions to the Los Angeles community, and the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, as part of the team that advised LA Metro’s “Understanding How Women Travel” report.
APA Student Paper Competition
Two UCLA urban planning students both won second place in the APA Transportation Planning Division’s 2020 student paper competition.
- Sidewalk Maintenance and Neighborhood Income Across Los Angeles, CA: An Analysis Two Years into the Willits Settlement Period, Katherine Stiegemeyer MURP ‘20
- Financing the Landside Access Modernization Project at LAX, Sam Speroni MURP ‘20
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting Awards
Evelyn Blumenberg won the TRB Pyke Johnson Award for her work on the mobility needs of aging adults, marking the third UCLA faculty member to win since the prize’s inception. The award-winning paper explores the relationship between car ownership, transit accessibility, and older adults’ employment status. Established in 1971, the award recognized an outstanding paper published in the field of transportation systems planning and administration. The paper was co-authored by Andrew Schouten PhD ‘19, doctoral student Miriam Pinski, and professor emeritus Martin Wachs, who won the same award more than 40 years ago, in 1976.
Cassie Halls MURP ‘20 won the “Best Master’s Student Poster Presentation” during TRB’s 2020 Transportation Research Showcase. The poster presentation featured Halls’ work, along with Emma Huang MPP ’17 from LA Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation, on a case study of bus-lane management. The study measured how the tactical transit lane on Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles impacted bus travel times, corridor-level throughput, and customer and operator experience.
2020 UCLA ITS Capstone Prize
| Ma’ayan Dembo | Off the Rails: Alternatives to Policing on Transit |
| Mark Hansen | Need for Speed: Opportunities for Bus Lanes Along Peak Hour Parking Corridors in Los Angeles |
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ASCE LA YMF INWED Award
2020 UCLA graduate Joceline Suhaimi won the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Los Angeles Younger Member Forum’s International Women in Engineering Day award for her essay on “what it means to be an engineering hero.”
Caroline Alain-Rodman Memorial Scholarship
The California Transportation Foundation awarded UCLA doctoral student Miriam Pinski with the Caroline Alain-Rodman Memorial Scholarship, given to exceptional students studying political science or public policy in a transportation capacity.
The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. This program advances the transportation workforce by helping to attract the nation’s brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advanced degrees, and helping to retain top talent in the U.S. transportation industry.
- Tam Guy, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Cassie Halls, MURP student
- Hannah King, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Julene Paul, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Miriam Pinski, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Maddy Ruvolo, MURP student
- Sam Speroni, MURP student
- Teo Wickland, doctoral student in Urban Planning
Seven UCLA women were honored this year in recognition of their achievements in transportation-related studies by the Los Angeles chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar, or WTS-LA, which distributed $100,000 in scholarship funds to women in high school, community college, undergraduate and graduate programs. Seven of the 12 higher-education recipients were UCLA students.
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- Ma’ayan Dembo, Master in Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) student
- Christi Fu, MBA student
- Cassie Halls, MURP student
- Guadalupe Huerta, MURP student
- Julene Paul, doctoral student in Urban Planning
- Maddy Ruvolo, MURP student
- Annaleigh Yahata, MURP student
Jacob Wasserman MURP ‘19, who currently works as a research project manager for UCLA ITS, won the Neville A. Parker Award for his capstone project, “A Time and Place for Every Rider? Geographic and Temporal Changes in Bay Area Transit Ridership.”
The award is given annually by the Council of University Transportation Centers to two recipients for the best master’s project in either policy and planning, or science and technology. Since 2002, a UCLA student has won it nine times.
2019 UCLA ITS Capstone Prize
ITS students are among the most honored in academic planning — and 2018 was no exception. Once again, graduate students and doctoral candidates at ITS took home a number of the country’s most prestigious awards for transportation scholarship.
Anne E. Brown, who completed her Ph.D. this spring, was the third ITS scholar in the past four years to receive the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for best dissertation in planning for her project Ridehail Revolution: Ridehail Travel and Equity in Los Angeles (read the policy briefs here and here). The project also earned Dr. Brown the Council of University Transportation Centers’ Charley V. Wooten award for outstanding doctoral thesis in transportation policy and planning, and she was named the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center’s student of the year. She is now an assistant professor at the University of Oregon.
Melissa D. Sather, a 2018 graduate of the UCLA Luskin Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) program, was also recognized by the Council of University Transportation Centers, winning the Neville A. Parker Award for outstanding master’s project in the field of policy and planning, and science and technology for her capstone report A New Model for Transit: Transit/TNC Partnerships in Western Riverside County (read the policy brief here).
Two current ITS doctoral candidates, Hannah King and Miriam Pinski, saw their research honored with scholarships from the Los Angeles chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar. “I hope I can make my mark in academia, affecting policies that make transit systems safe and convenient for women and girls,” said Pinski (pictured above) at the awards ceremony. “I hope to research and teach transportation planning at the graduate level,” said King. “Receiving the WTS-LA Scholarship takes me one step closer to reaching that goal, and, I hope, in some small way will better enable me to give back to the wider transportation community.”
Several ITS scholars were recipients of the annual Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program awards:
- Cassie Halls, a first-year MURP student
- Dustin Khuu, a second-year MURP student completing the capstone project “Assessing Barriers to Mobility and Accessibility in Watts: A Case Study of the Jordan Downs Housing Development”
- Hannah King, a third-year urban planning doctoral student studying travel behavior, gentrification and displacement, and new mobility
- Miriam Pinski, a first-year urban planning doctoral student studying transportation and equity issues for vulnerable populations, such as older adults and women
- Jacob Wasserman, a second-year MURP student completing the capstone project “A Time and a Place for Every Rider?: Geographic and Temporal Changes in Bay Area Transit Ridership”
- Teo Wickland, a fourth-year urban planning doctoral student completing the dissertation “Pluralizing Transportation Epistemologies: Culture, Environment, and Mobile Materialities in French Polynesia”
Congratulations to all, and ITS looks forward to honoring more groundbreaking research in 2019!
Professor Shoup, an ITS faculty fellow and distinguished research professor of urban planning, received the ACSP Distinguished Educator Award (read his acceptance remarks here). During his tenure of more than 40 years at UCLA, Professor Shoup has built an international reputation as a premiere authority on parking policy, influencing generations of students who have gone on to implement his ideas in cities throughout the United States and the world.
ASCP selects recipients of the Distinguished Educator Award every two years based on their scholarly contributions, teaching excellence, public service, and professional practice. Professor Shoup is the second ITS faculty fellow to win this prestigious award, joining Professor Martin Wachs, who won in 2006 while at UC Berkeley.
Carole Turley Voulgaris, who was recently named an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, won the prestigious Best Dissertation in Planning award for her work on transit ridership forecasts while at ITS. This is the second time in three years that an ITS student’s PhD dissertation has been named the nation’s best, after Kelcie Ralph, now an assistant professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers, won in 2015.
Severin Martinez (MURP ’16) has won the 2017 Neville Parker Award for the best transportation policy & planning capstone project in the U.S. from the Council of University Transportation Centers. Mr. Martinez’s project, entitled ‘Who Wins When Streets Lose Lanes? An Analysis of Safety on Road Diet Corridors in Los Angeles’ analyzes the effectiveness of road diets in changing the rates of collisions, injuries, and severe and fatal injuries on five streets in the City of Los Angeles. Mr. Martinez is UCLA’s 12th transportation policy and planning student to win an award for the best capstone, thesis, or dissertation from the Council of University Transportation Centers since 1998. He is currently a Transportation Planner for the California Department of Transportation. Mr. Martinez will receive his award and honorarium at the CUTC Banquet at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, DC in January.
Zoe Unruh (MURP ’16) Awarded Scholarship from the American Public Transportation Foundation
UCLA Luskin student Zoe Unruh (MURP ’16) has been selected for this distinguished award. Please join us in congratulating Zoe for receiving this recognition.
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) awards sixteen scholarships each year to students pursuing careers in public transportation. The Jack R. Gilstrap Scholarship is awarded to the student whose application received the overall highest score.
APTF seeks to support the next generation of transit leaders by providing scholarship and engagement opportunities. So far, APTF has awarded over $700,000 in scholarship to more than 200 students in an effort to help prepare transit’s emerging leaders for the challenges of the 21st Century.
UCLA Luskin Students Awarded for Scholarship in Transportation
We are happy to announce three awards in transportation scholarship given over the summer of 2015 to doctoral and master’s degree students in transportation at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. These distinguished awards celebrate each student’s contribution to advancing the study of transportation planning.
Please join us in congratulating Kelcie Ralph (PhD ’15), awarded the Barclay Gibbs Jones Dissertation Award for Best Dissertation in Planning from the Association of Collegiate School of Planing, as well as Zoe Unruh’s (MURP ’16) scholarship from the Intelligent Transportation Systems of California, and Casey Osborn’s (MURP ’15) honors for her paper submission to the Transportation Planning Division of the American Planning Association’s 2015 Student Paper Competition.
Urban Planning PhD Student Selected to Attend Eno Future Leaders Development Conference
Carole Turley Voulgaris (PhD Candidate) was selected to attend the 23rd Annual Eno Future Leaders Development Conference. Each year, the Eno Center for Transportation invites America’s top graduate students in transportation-related fields to spend a week in Washington, DC, to learn how transportation policies are developed from those who develop them.
Transportation PhD Students Awarded Eisenhower Fellowships
Three of our outstanding doctoral students have been awarded prestigious Eisenhower Fellowships from the U.S. Department of Transportation: Anne Brown, Jaimee Lederman, and Kelcie Ralph. These fellowships help to fund students’ doctoral studies, including funding to present their research at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, DC
American Planning Association Honors PEV Plan and Parklet Toolkit
The Los Angeles section of the American Planning Association (APA) has chosen to honor the Luskin Center’s Southern California Plug-in Electric Vehicle Readiness Plan and Atlas with the 2013 Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice. The award is given annually to a planning tool or project that represents a significant advancement to a specific type of planning practice. The Plan and Atlas were selected on criteria including originality and innovation, transferability, effectiveness, quality of analysis and graphic design. The award will be presented at the APA Los Angeles section ceremony June 13 in San Gabriel, CA.
Model Design Manual for Living Streets Receives Prestigious National Award from the American Planning Association
The American Planning Association (APA) has awarded the prestigious National Planning Achievement Award for Best Practice to the Model Design Manual for Living Streets. Ryan Snyder Associates, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and UCLA’s Luskin Center and Lewis Center produced this manual with dozens of experts from across the country to provide guidance for cities seeking to update their existing road standard manuals with updated techniques and concepts. These techniques seek to ensure that all users of the streetscape, including pedestrians, cyclists and transit riders, can travel safely and comfortably. The manual also includes concepts for thinking holistically and sustainability about streetscape designs and retrofits. Colleen Callahan, deputy director of the Luskin Center, managed the section with tips and tools for creating streetscape ecosystems that are socially vibrant, economically strong and environmentally sustainable.
Trio Awarded Eisenhower Fellowships
This year, three transportation students were awarded an Eisenwhower Fellowship: Chelsea Richer, Benton Heimsath and Carole Turley. The national Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. The federal program awards approximately 150 to 200 Fellowships each year based on funding availability. Awards can range from a few thousand dollars to covering full tuition and research costs. Fellows submit — and often present — their research at the annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting in Washington D.C.
2013 WTS Scholarship Recipients
The WTS Foundation awards scholarships to women who are pursuing careers in transportation through undergraduate and graduate programs. The scholarships are competitive and based on the applicant’s specific transportation goals, academic record and transportation-related activities or job skills. Minority candidates are encouraged to apply. Local Chapters may have additional requirements (such as personal interviews or higher GPA).
This year, three UCLA transportation students received WTS Scholarships.
Jaimee Lederman is currently an Urban Planning PhD student at UCLA. Her research focuses on the intersection between transportation planning, regional governance, and the environment. Before attending UCLA, she was a practicing lawyer and also received a Master_s degree in Economics. Ultimately, she would like to use this knowledge to help transportation planners best approach environmental requirements with the philosophy that incorporating environmental goals into transportation planning is a situation in which everyone wins.
Doreen Zhao is pursuing a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA. Currently, she is researching demand-responsive pricing for parking and how cities may better manage their parking supply. She is also interested in new transportation technologies and concepts, such as electric vehicles and ridesharing, and their impacts on our traditional concept of mobility and travel.
Rosa Guillen-Sanchez will receive an M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning with a concentration in Transportation Planning and Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles, in June of 2014. She participated in the WTS-OC 2013 Transportation Academy and is an active member of the Planners of Color for Social Equity at UCLA. Her work experience includes a current internship with the Orange County Transportation Authority and a previous internship with Orange County Works/OC Planning. She completed a research project on the commute and housing cost burdens of people who work at Disneyland and found evidence that some low-wage workers were commuting great distances in order to find affordable housing.
Colleen Callahan
Colleen Callahan Wins Parker Award and Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation Fellowship Award
“The Plane Truth-Air Quality Impacts of Airport Operations and Strategies for Sustainability: A Case Study of the Los Angeles World Airports” by Colleen Callahan won the Neville A. Parker Award. Additionally she was awarded the Switzer Foundation Fellowship Award for her work. The Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation drives positive environmental change by recognizing and fostering a diverse network of environmental leaders, and mobilizing them through the Switzer Fellowship Network. Colleen Callahan was awarded academic funding and a variety of resources are offered to provide career and professional support to the Fellows during their Fellowship year and thereafter. More Information
Chandini Singh wins AICP Outstanding Student Award
The American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Awards recognizes outstanding attainment in the study of planning by students graduating from Planning Accreditation Boardaccredited planning programs during the academic year of the award. Chandini Singh received this honor for the 2009-2010 school year.
The American Planning Association (APA)’s Planning Fellowship Program Scholarship was awarded the 2008-2009 school year to Cecilia Garcia at UCLA. Cecilia Garcia joined the UARS Systems unit in June 2004. Cecilia worked in UARS for four years as a student worker while working towards her bachelors degree in Sociology.
Chester Rapkin Award for Best Planning Article awarded to Donald Shoup
Donald Shoup
The Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Paper in the Journal of Planning Education and Research is awarded annually. All papers published in the Journal are automatically considered. Members of the award committee are appointed by the Editors of the Journal. This year the Chester Rapkin Award was won by Donald Shoup for his article titled “Graduated Density Zoning.”
California Planning Foundation Outstanding Student Award
The 2009 CPF Outstanding Student Award was earned by Clare Fox. These scholarships are awarded statewide based on an application and selection process by the CPF Board. These scholarships are designed for continuing students entering their final year of an undergraduate or master’s degree accredited planning program. Criteria for the scholarships include academic performance, professional promise in advancing excellent planning in California, financial need, and increasing diversity in the profession of planning.
Urban Planning PhD Doug Houston is UC Transportation Student of the Year
Eric Morris
Urban Planning Ph.D. student Eric Morris has been selected to receive a 2008 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration.
Urban Planning M.A. student Stephen Brumbaugh also is the recipient of a 2008 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship in the amount of $1,500. Brumbaugh also will attend the TRB meeting in Washington, D.C.
UP Grad Wins Parker Award from Council of University Transportation Centers
Urban Planning student Andrea L. Osgood won the 2007 Neville A. Parker Award for her work, Curb Dreams: Allocating On-Street Parking for Carsharing. An Analysis of Local Government Agencies Options for Encouraging Carsharing Use Through On-Street Parking Programs.
Urban Planning Ph.D. Student Michael Smart Selected for Eno Leadership Conference, Headed to Washington, D.C. in May
Urban Planning Paper Wins Transportation Research Award
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Steve Crosley wins the Neville A. Parker Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers
Steve Crosley (M.A., Urban Planning, 2006) has been selected to receive the Neville A. Parker Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers for his UCLA client project The Choices of Choice Riders — Demand for Light Rail Transit in the Polycentric City: A Look at Culver City and the Mid-City/Exposition Line.
Eric Morris
Doug Houston received a 3 year Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship from the The National Highway Institute.
Adina Ringler – Winner of the 2006 Myra L. Frank Memorial Scholarship
Paul Sorensen – selected for ENO Leadership Development Conference
Urban Planning second-year student Paul A. Sorensen has been selected to attend the 13th annual Leadership Development Conference on transportation public policy sponsored by the ENO Transportation Foundation. The conference is set for May 23-27 in Washington, D.C.
Educational Grants and Fellowships
UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program: Camille Fink
Departmental and University Awards and Honors
Outstanding Graduating Doctoral Student: Hiro Iseki
Katherine Gouvias Fellowship: Timothy Papandreou
Leon Hoffman Fellowship for Urban and Information Technology: Kendra Vernon
Michael S. Dukakis Internship Stipend: Amy Ford
UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Award: Timothy Papandreou
UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies Graduate Research Grant: Amy Ford, Kevin Holliday
State and Regional Awards and Honors
Ava Doner Memorial Scholarship, Women’s Transportation Seminar: Camille Fink
California Planning Foundation Student Scholarship: Gabriela Juarez
California Planning Foundation Continuing Student Merit Award: Paul Sorensen
State of California Toxic Substances Research Award: Lisa Schweitzer
National and International Awards and Honors
American Planning Association (APA) Judith McManus Pricec Scholarship: Gabriela Juarez
Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship: Camille Fink
Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Award for Outstanding Non-Thesis Masters Degree Paper in Policy and Planning: Camille Fink
Camille Fink won the 2004 award for the best (non-thesis) masters capstone project from the Council of University Transportation Centers for her terrorism security assessment of Union Station in Los Angeles. The winners of these awards are selected via double-blind reviews by panels of faculty members from CUTC member universities from around the U.S.
Departmental and University Awards and Honors
Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship: Camille Fink
Julie Roque Award: Heather Burton
National and International Awards and Honors
Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Charles Wooten Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in Policy and Planning: Jeffrey Brown
Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Charles Wooten Award for Outstanding Thesis in Policy and Planning: Kathleen Rogers
Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Award for Outstanding Non-Thesis Masters Degree Paper in Policy and Planning: Heather Burton
Eno Transportation Foundation Fellowship: Allison Yoh
Presidential Management Intern Award: Camille Fink, Susan Herre
Rodney Slater Student Award: Allison Yoh
State and Regional Awards and Honors
American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) Outstanding Student Award: Susan Herre
Ava Doner Memorial Scholarship, Women’s Transportation Seminar: Caroline Forger
California Planning Foundation Outstanding Student Scholarship: Amy Ford
University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) Student of the Year Award: Lisa Schweitzer
Educational Grants and Fellowships
UCLA Office of Instructional Development Grant, UP 149 (Transportation Geography), Fall 2003, Allison Yoh, Teaching Assistant, $1,000
Departmental and University Awards and Honors
Dean’s Award for Overall Excellence: Dennis Farmer
Harvey S. Perloff Scholarship: Camille Fink
Julie Roque Award: Lisa Schweitzer
Title VI Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship: Eric Eidlin
State and Regional Awards and Honors
Ava Doner Memorial Scholarship, Women’s Transportation Seminar: Camille Fink
Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship, Women’s Transportation Seminar: Lisa Schweitzer
University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) Dissertation Fellowship: Jeffrey Brown
National and International Awards and Honors
Eno Transportation Foundation Fellowship: Daniel Chatman
Departmental And University Awards and Honors
Chancellor’s Fellowship: Allison Yoh
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship: Camille Fink
Julie Roque Award: Peter Brown
Title VI Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship: Eric Eidlin
State and Regional Awards and Honors
California Planning Foundation Academic Achievement Award, Continuing Student: Dennis Farmer
University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) Student of the Year Award: Jeffrey Brown
Departmental and University Awards and Honors
California Planning Foundation Academic Achievement Award, Continuing Student: Dennis Farmer
University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) Student of the Year Award: Jeffrey Brown
National and International Awards and Honors
Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship: Lisa Schweitzer
Eno Transportation Foundation Fellowship: Jeffrey Brown
Transportation Research Board’s Pyke Johnson Award (for the best paper in the area of planning and administration of transportation facilities): Hiroyuki Iseki and Mark Garrett, co-authored with Professor Brian Taylor
Wootan PhD Award given to Dr. Mary Jane Breinholt
Dr. Mary Jane Breinholt was the recipient of the Charles V. Wootan Award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in transportation studies. Awarded by the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC).
State and Regional Awards and Honors
Chancellor’s Fellowship: Lisa Schweitzer
Dean’s Award for Overall Excellence: Gian-Claudia Sciara
Michael S. Dukakis Internship Stipend: Allison Yoh
Departmental and University Awards and Honors
Chancellor’s Fellowship: Lisa Schweitzer
Dean’s Award for Overall Excellence: Gian-Claudia Sciara
Michael S. Dukakis Internship Stipend: Allison Yoh
National and International Awards and Honors
American Planning Association Transportation, Planning Division, Best Research Paper in the Graduate Student Division: Gian-Claudia Sciara
Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship: Daniel Chatman
Eno Transportation Foundation Fellowship: Gian-Claudia Sciara
Presidential Management Intern (PMI) Award: Scott Perley
National and International Awards and Honors
Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Charles Wooten Award for Outstanding Thesis in Policy and Planning: Philip Law
Eno Transportation Foundation Fellowship: Andrew Mondschein
State and Regional Awards and Honors
American Public Transit Foundation Transit Hall of Fame Scholarship and Donald C. Hyde Memorial Essay Contest: Roy Choi
Departmental and University Awards and Honors
Dean’s Award for Overall Excellence: Andrew Mondschein
Harvey S. Perloff Scholarship: Gian-Glaudia Sciara
National and International Awards and Honors
Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Charles Wooten Award for Outstanding Thesis in Policy and Planning: Jeffrey Brown
Dwight D. Eisenhower Research Fellowship: Daniel Hess
Eno Transportation Foundation Fellowship: Mark Garrett
Presidential Management Intern (PMI) Award: Trent Lethco
Departmental and University Awards and Honors
Dean’s Award for Overall Excellence: Jeffrey Brown
Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship: Jeffrey Brown
State and Regional Awards and Honors
California Planning Foundation Academic Achievement Award, Graduating Student: Kathleen Rogers
Educational Grants and Fellowships
UCLA Office of Instructional Development Grant, UP 192 (Urban Policy and Planning), Spring 1997, Eugene Kim, Teaching Assistant, $500
National and International Awards and Honors
Dwight D. Eisenhower Research Fellowship: Anthony Campagna
Eno Transportation Foundation Fellowship: Eugene Kim
State and Regional Awards and Honors
American Planning Association (APA) Planning Fellowship: Anthony Campagna
California Planning Foundation Academic Achievement Award, Continuing Student: Kathleen Forrest Rogers
California Planning Foundation Academic Achievement Award, Graduating Student: William S. McCullough III
Educational Grants and Fellowships
UCLA Office of Instructional Development Grant, UP 191 (Introduction to Cities and Planning), Winter 1996, Gail Sansbury, Teaching Assistant, $500
Departmental and University Awards and Honors
Harvey S. Perloff Scholarship: Priya Girishankar