Category: Awards

  • Colleen Callahan wins the 2011 Neville A. Parker Award

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  • Colleen Callahan wins Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation Fellowship Award

    The Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation drives positive environmental change by recognizing and fostering a diverse network of environmental leaders, and mobilizing them through the Switzer Fellowship Network. Colleen Callahan was awarded academic funding and a variety of resources are offered to provide career and professional support to the Fellows during their Fellowship year and…

  • UP Grad Wins Parker Award from Council of University Transportation Centers

    Urban Planning graduate Andrea Osgood (MA UP ’07), has been awarded the 2007 Council of University Transportation Center Neville A. Parker Award for her project titled, “Curb Dreams: Allocating On-Street Parking for Carsharing. An Analysis of Local Government Agencies’ Options for Encouraging Carsharing Use Through On-Street Parking Programs.” The Parker Award, given by the Council…

  • UCLA Urban Planning Students Awarded 2008 Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships

    Urban Planning Ph.D. student Eric Morris has been selected to receive a 2008 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. The purpose of the Fellowship Program is to attract qualified students to the field of tranportation and research, and advance workforce development. Morris will receive nearly $70,000 and…

  • UCLA Urban Planner selected by Women’s Transportation Seminar to recieve Myra L. Frank Memorial Scholarship

    Second-year Urban Planning MA student Adina Ringler has been selected by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Women

  • Steve Crosley selected by CUTC to receive Neville A. Parker Award

    Steve Crosley (M.A., Urban Planning, 2006) has been selected to receive the Neville A. Parker Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers for his UCLA client project The Choices of Choice Riders — Demand for Light Rail Transit in the Polycentric City: A Look at Culver City and the Mid-City/Exposition Line. Neville A. Parker…

  • Transportation Alumna Lauren Buckland Finalist in APA Paper Competition

    The Section on Transportation Policy and Administration of the American Society for Public Administration is pleased to announce that Lauren Buckland’s paper (MA ’05), entitled “Balancing Equity and Efficiency in Transit in Los Angeles” was selected to be one of four finalists out of a pool of 24 diverse and high-quality submissions. The selection committee…

  • Eric Morris Wins 2006 American Planning Association Award

    Second year transportation student Eric Morris is the winner of the American Planning Association Transportation Division’s 2006 outstanding student paper competition for his paper titled, “The Privatization of British Rail: How Did It Turn Into a Train Wreck?” The competition recognizes outstanding student papers on current transportation planning or policy issues. Entries were judged on…

  • Transportation Student Wins National Award

    For the 8th time in the past eight years, a UCLA Urban Planning student has won an award for the best transportation policy and planning masters project, thesis, or dissertation from the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). Complete story available at http://www.spa.ucla.edu/dept.cfm?d=up&s=newsevents&f=news.cfm&news_id=13327

  • Congratulations to WTS Scholarship Recipient Jane Berner

    Transportation student Jane Berner has been selected by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar to receive the Myra Frank Memorial Scholarship for 2005. She will receive her award at the Annual Scholarship and Awards Dinner on November 10. The Myra L. Frank Memorial Scholarship was established in 2005 by the Los Angeles…