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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

Jill Wilson, Northwestern University 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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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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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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Harvard Morgue Manager’s Wife Admits to Transporting Stolen Body Parts

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The wife of Harvard Medical School’s disgraced former morgue manager pleaded guilty Friday to interstate transport of stolen goods, which included hands, feet and other body parts stolen from the institution’s morgue, the Associated Press reported.

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CCS Transportation Design Faculty React to Destiny 2 Sparrow Designs

College for Creative Study

CCS Chair of Transportation Design Paul Snyder and Assistant Professor Jason White were asked to comment and react to designs featured on the Destiny 2 multiplayer game. The post CCS Transportation Design Faculty React to Destiny 2 Sparrow Designs appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Temple Acting President JoAnne Epps Dies at 72

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Blockson Afro-American Collection, Epps slumped over in her chair and was then transported to the university hospital. At an event honoring the late Charles L. Blockson, curator emeritus of Temple’s Charles L. She died around 3:15 p.m. There are no words that can describe the gravity and sadness of this loss.