PacTrans News
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February 8, 2021
OSU’s Eileen Chai Received 2020-2021 Beverley Swaim Leadership Legacy Graduate Scholarship
Each year, WTS offers a variety of scholarship to students in transportation related fields. This year, Oregon State University Master’s student and PacTrans student researcher, Eileen Chai received the 2020-2021 Beverley Swaim Leadership Legacy Graduate Scholarship.
Eileen is a first-year master’s student advised by David Hurwitz, professor of transportation engineering and the Eric H.I. and Janice Hoffman Faculty Scholar. She earned the honor in recognition of her many accomplishments including a stellar undergraduate GPA, membership in the honors societies Phi Theta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi, and serving as the Community Service Chair of the OSU ITE Student Chapter.
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February 8, 2021
OSU’s Mohammad Rayeedul Kalam Siam Receives Region 10 Michael Kyte Outstanding Student of the Year Award
Each year, PacTrans facilitates the submission and selection of the Region 10 Michael Kyte Outstanding Student of the Year Award. The Region 10 Michael Kyte Outstanding Student of the Year Award is available to any student attending a university in Region 10 (Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Idaho) who participates in UTC funded work. Selection is based on accomplishments in three areas: (1) Technical Merit and Research, (2) Academic Performance, and (3) Professionalism and Leadership. This year, this award went to Oregon State University PhD candidate, Mohammad Rayeedul Kalam Siam.
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February 8, 2021
OSU’s Amy Wyman Receives PacTrans UTC Outstanding Student of the Year Award
Each year, every University Transportation Center has the opportunity to recognize one of its many brilliant student researchers with the UTC Outstanding Student of the Year award. Students are evaluated on accomplishments in three areas: (1) Technical Merit and Research, (2) Academic Performance, and (3) Professionalism and Leadership. This year, that prestigious award went to Oregon State University PhD candidate Amy Wyman.
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February 8, 2021
PacTrans Makes Strong Showing at 2021 Virtual TRB Annual Meeting
This year the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting celebrated its 100th anniversary. Also noteworthy this year, the conference was held virtually for the first time in its existence. This annual conference typically consist of more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world hosting more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 800 sessions and workshops in what always amounts to a jam packed week in frigid Washington D.C. This year, the virtual event spanned the entire month of January but still featured thousands of activities and presentations that participant attended from behind the computer of their homes and/or offices. The theme of the 100th annual meeting was Launching a New Century of Mobility and Quality of Life.
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February 8, 2021
PacTrans-funded COVID-19 Research on Work from Home gets Published
In late Spring of 2020, PacTrans funded three quick research projects revolving around various aspects of COVID-19. One of these projects, titled, How to Sustain Work from Home? Employers’ and Employees’ Perspectives, is being led by Anne Vernez Moudon, Professor Emertius in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington.
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