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DURP Second-Year MSP Student Alexander Garcia has been selected as an Eno Fellow and will participate in the Eno Transportation Foundation Leadership Development Conference, which will take place in Washington, D.C., 3-7 June 2012. Each year, the Eno Leadership Development Conference gives 20 of the nation’s top graduate students in transportation a first-hand look at how national transportation policies are developed. Students apply to the program early in the year, and those selected as “Eno Fellows” go to Washington, DC, for a week of meetings with federal officials and leader.
Urban and Regional Planning PhD student Ismaila Abubakar won an award for his policy brief, "More people, poor services: Life in the suburban districts of Abuja, Nigeria". The award for the best policy brief is a competition by selected fellows from developing countries who are in the final stage of their doctoral programs during the 2012 Policy Communication Workshop organized by Population Reference Bureau, a subsidiary of USAID.
DURP Faculty Jeffrey Brown and Gregory Thompson and doctoral students Torsha Bhattacharya and Michal Jaroszynski have completed a study funded by the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University of transit ridership in Atlanta, Georgia. The DURP research team found that transit users who rely on transit as a principal means of transportation, as well as riders who have access to automobiles, value more direct routes to their travel destinations.
Allison Piszczatoski was a coauthor on the recently published article, Standard K Factors for Transportation Planning and Design, in the November 2011 issue of the National Institute of Transportation Engineers Journal.
URP doctoral student, Fatima Wajahat, was one of three graduate student winners in the second annual academic paper competition for graduate students studying urban issues, co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Comparative Urban Studies Project, USAID's Urban Programs Team, the International Housing Coalition, the World Bank, and Cities Alliance. Along with seasoned experts in the field, Fatima will be one of three featured speakers in the November 1, 2011 policy workshop: 'Reducing Urban Poverty', hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.