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Allie Thomas Wins WTS Award

July 22, 2010

City and Regional Planning Ph.D. student Allie Thomas has received the 2010 Elaine Dezenski Legacy Scholarship through the Women's Transportation Seminar for her work on global transportation challenges. The $5,000 award takes the name of the current WTS International president, and is given to an outstanding young woman graduate student who demonstrates a specific...

ITS Ph.D. Student Christian Claudel Wins Chua Award

September 22, 2010

Christian Claudel portrait

Ph.D. student Christian Claudel has won the Leon O. Chua Award for his work on applications of Hamilton-Jacobi equations to traffic monitoring systems. Claudel works under the supervision of Systems Engineering Assistant Professor Alexandre Bayen on the Mobile Millennium project, which is managed by the...

TSRC Researchers Win TRB Award for Carsharing Paper

January 12, 2011

Three TSRC researchers have won TRB’s second annual Outstanding Research Paper in Public Transportation award for their paper illuminating car ownership changes of people belonging to carsharing organizations.

shaheen, martin, lidecker

A trio of TSRC researchers has won the Transportation Research Board...

Eric Gonzales Named UCTC Student of the Year

January 21, 2011

ITS student Eric Gonzales, whose work has focused on how to manage multimodal transportation systems and street space in cities, has been named the 2010-2011 UCTC Outstanding Student of the Year Award, UCTC Director Robert Cervero announced. Gonzales is a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Full article: http://uctc.net/news/studentoftheyear.shtml

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A New Director for the Pavement Research Center

May 23, 2012

Professor Carl Monismith, director of the University of California Pavement Research Center (PRC) for more than five decades, stepped down from his position earlier this month.

Dr. James Signore, who has served as assistant director of the Berkeley branch of the dual-campus research center for the past three years, has been appointed to the directorship. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1998 and has been with the center for six years. Professor Monismith has agreed to...

ITS Alum Dan Work Wins Prestigious Best Dissertation Award

January 17, 2012

Daniel Work, who received his Ph.D. in 2010 and is now an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, won the Best Dissertation award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.

The IEEE award is given annually for the "best dissertation in any ITS area that is innovative and relevant to practice."

Work's dissertation was titled, "Real...

Adib Kanafani Receives TRB’s Carey Award

January 17, 2012
Adib Kanafani, Professor of the Graduate School in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a former director of ITS, will receive the Transportation Research Board’s W.N. Carey, Jr. Distinguished Service Award for 2011. The Carey Award is one of the two highest honors bestowed by the TRB.
Kanafani will receive the award at the 91st Annual Meeting of the TRB in Washington, D.C. in...

Larry Burns Elected to National Academy of Engineering

October 10, 2011

Larry Burns, ITS alumnus, former vice president of research and development for General Motors, and a champion of alternative fuel systems for vehicles, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors bestowed upon an engineer.

Burns, who also served on the ITS advisory board for many years prior to his retirement from GM in 2009, was a tireless champion of...

Shuttle Express into the Future

June 28, 2019
Bocsch.com talks with Susan Shaheen, ITS affiliate, Professor for Civil and Environmental Engineering and Co-Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley about self-driving shuttle busses.

UC Berkeley names new dean to College of Environmental Design

June 27, 2019
Chancellor Carol Christ and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos announced Vishaan Chakrabarti, celebrated architect and associate professor of professional practice at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, will become the next dean of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design.