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PacTrans would like to extend a sincere thanks to all of the UTC faculties, staffs, students, and industry professionals who attended our 2016 PacTrans Reception at the Annual TRB conference in Washington DC. We were thrilled to see you socializing, discussing, and sharing ideas for future partnerships. We hope you enjoyed yourself and look forward to hosting you again next year.

For those of you who missed the reception, on the evening of January the 11th, PacTrans hosted over 200 faculty, staff, students, and professionals from consortium universities and the industry at large. Besides discussions and general socializing, PacTrans had two awards to present. First, Professor Ahmed Abdel-Rahim from the University of Idaho presented fellow professor Michael Kyte a plaque in honor of his contribution to Transportation, Academic and Research. He is officially retiring from University of Idaho so this was a small tribute to his contribution to Civil and Environmental Engineering and the University Transportation Center.

Dr. Kyte has made such a substantial contribution to our UTC that we have named a student award after him; the Michael Kyte award. The Michael Kyte Outstanding Student Award seeks to recognize students in University Transportation Center Federal Region 10 with the highest accomplishments in three areas:  technical merit and research, academic performance, professionalism and leadership.  Students are nominated by their Faculty adviser and go through a series of competitions, first within their institution and second, within the Federal Region 10 University Transportation Centers. Thus, after receiving his award, Dr. Kyte had the privilege of turning around and presenting the Michael Kyte award to University of Alaska, Fairbanks PhD candidate, Anthony Mullin.