• June 12, 2017

    UW Student Researcher Elyse O’Callaghan Lewis Awarded NSF Fellowship

    Elyse O’Callaghan Lewis is a graduate student at the University of Washington researching under Don MacKenzie in the Sustainable Transportation Lab. Elyse was recently awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Elyse is a master’s student in transportation engineering, and she proposed to address the question How do centralized transit systems compared to informal transit systems affect life quality of slum residents in Latin American Cities? She proposed to address this question by integrating case study and network analysis methods, based on surveys and mobile data logging technologies.

    The GRFP is highly competitive, with a success rate of approximately 14%. Perhaps more remarkably, in 2016 only ten GRFP fellowships were awarded to civil engineering students nationwide.

    Congratulations Elyse!