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Teacher-Researcher Crafts More Efficient Transportation Systems

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dipayan Banerjee, a fifth-year doctoral student at Georgia Institute of Technology with a passion for teaching, is pursuing research that can have a societal impact regarding logistics and supply chain management as well as equity and fairness in the context of transportation.

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Regional Transportation Research Center Receives $3 Million in Federal Funding

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), a regional transportation research center led by the University of Washington (UW), will receive $3 million in federal funding. Pramila Jayapal Rep. Other institutions such as Northwest Indian College and Washington State University are also PacTrans collaborators.

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Crafting More Efficient Transportation Systems

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Operations Research Education: B.S., Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology Mentors: Dr. Alan Erera and Dr. Alejandro Toriello, H. Banerjee excels at both teaching and research, according to Dr. Damon P. Karen Smilowitz, who needed an undergraduate student to work on a problem in public school transportation.

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Prairie View A&M to Become First HBCU to Lead a National University Transportation Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Transportation to lead a national-tier University Transportation Center (UTC), making the school the first historically Black college or university (HBCU) to lead a national UTC. Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has been selected by the U.S.

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THE COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES’ GRADUATE TRANSPORTATION DESIGN – A PROGRAM FOR VISIONARIES

College for Creative Study

Record enrollment, high job placement, and international awards have the College for Creative Studies’ Graduate Transportation Design program reaching new heights. For the past fourteen years, CCS has housed one of the only Graduate Transportation Design programs in the country. to attend this program.

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Ohio State Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

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Mohler Peter “Ohio State’s newly elected Fellows represent a breadth of expertise in subjects ranging from cardiac disorders and marine life to STEM education and exoplanets,” said Dr. Peter Mohler, executive vice president for research, innovation, and knowledge at Ohio State. “I Dr. Natividad Ruiz , professor of microbiology.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jackson’s journey to Michigan State began — in earnest — some two decades earlier, when the young Jackson embarked on an ambitious research agenda of studying education deans as a doctoral student at Iowa State University. I just fell completely in love with focusing on the research, working with students, teaching classes.

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