Student Awards
Students in the transportation specialization have received numerous external recognition and awards each year. Below are a few examples.
Notable student achievements include the EPA STAR grant and Ford Foundation Fellowship that Anna Osland received to support her dissertation work. Anna is examining the ugly duckling of transportation—hazardous liquid transmission pipelines and the issue of hazard mitigation and urban development.
Doctoral student Tabitha Combs received an award from the Institute of Latin American Studies at UNC to do pre-dissertation field work in Bogotá. She is interested in the relationship between transit services and urban growth.
Stephanie Brown, Class of 2007, received the federal government’s prestigious Presidential Management Fellowship. Finally, CTP faculty and students were active at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C. Look for us in January 2008, including our seventh annual alumni/TRB reunion.
Yasukochi won the Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship from Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) North Carolina Chapter. It is a merit-based graduate scholarship for women pursuing careers in transportation. Her application will be considered for the national award in February 2007.
 Zachary Shahan, a Masters student in City and Regional Planning ('07), was awarded a fellowship from the Environment, Natural Resources and Energy Division of the American Planning Association for excelling in graduate level studies related to natural resources, energy and the environment in the field of planning. Zachary's proposed master’s project will involve a comparative study of bicycle travel and bicycle facilities in both Montgomery County (Maryland) and in the city of Delft* (in the Netherlands). Through the NEURUS program, Zachary will spend the spring semester of 2007 in the Netherlands collecting his data. For both study areas Zachary will be analyzing data regarding perceived bicycle facility access. He will also be analyzing comparable data collected via survey from a stratified random sample of residents in the city of Delft. Analysis of actual access to various facilities and bicycle travel will also be conducted in both locations, using objective, secondary data. Results will be compared to help identify factors that have a consistent impact on bicycle travel as well as factors that appear to be more culturally important.
Laura Sandt, a Masters student in City and Regional Planning, was awarded the 2005 Women’s Transportation Seminar fellowship.
 Anna Osland, a doctoral student in City and Regional Planning was awarded three fellowships: an Environmental Protection Agency STAR Award, a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Eisenhower stipend fellowship to attend the Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting in Washington D.C. Her doctoral research focuses on pipeline safety and their implications for urban growth patterns.
Patrick McDonough (MRP 2004) was awarded the Travel Demand Management Institute Young Researcher Award for his Master's Project titled “A Case-Based Reasoning Tool to Compare and Evaluate Employer-Based Transit Pass Programs.”
Other awards our students received in the past:
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