News & Announcements
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Transportation is of utmost importance for a constantly evolving and thriving city like Los Angeles. To keep up with development, urban transportation needs innovation at every step, and LA Metro created its Office of Extraordinary Innovation to do just this. On May 3rd, the Women’s Transportation Seminar’s LA chapter welcomed Chief Innovation Officer Dr. Joshua Schank and Metro Vendor/Contract Management Executive Officer Carolina Coppolo to the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown ...
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Martin Krieger, professor of planning at the USC Price School of Public Policy, took an unconventional approach to studying transit-oriented development around New York City Subway stations. He picked up a camera and snapped tens of thousands of photographs. “The people who talk about transit-oriented development have a very lovely image of a little village, where people would work and reside and shop, and there would be more walking and less automobile commuting — and there may be truth ...
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Sunday, June 4, 2017
When Griffin Kantz was called on stage to give his speech as valedictorian at the USC Price School of Public Policy commencement ceremony, it was a surprise to his family. He kept the honor a secret from his parents, sister and two grandmothers in attendance. “I thought if I told them too early in the semester, they’d get too into celebrating, as parents do, and by the time the ceremony came along, the feeling would have normalized — I wanted it to be special for them,” said ...
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Sunday, June 4, 2017
We are pleased to introduce Student Assistant Yang Deng, who leads METRANS graphic design team. Yang is pursuing MS in Transportation Engineering at USC and expects to graduate in 2018. Yang earned a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from Shanxi University of Science and Technology at Xi’an, China and then worked as an R&D designer at Shaanxi Automobile Group Co., Ltd., one of China’s largest bus and truck manufacturers, headquartered in Xi'an, before coming to USC. ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, May 27, 2017
By Deng Yang, MSCE 2018 We are pleased to introduce Lead Student Assistant Madhurima (Maddie) Bhattacharyya, who recently joined the Center’s administrative team. Maddie was born and raised in India where she completed her Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from KIIT University in 2015. After graduating, she worked as a Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant Technology Solutions for a year. She is now pursuing a Master of Science (MS) in Engineering ...
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Friday, May 19, 2017
Price undergraduate David Roachford presented his senior thesis at the Urban Affairs Association annual conference in Minneapolis. Weeks before completing his bachelor of science degree from the USC Price School of Public Policy, David Roachford stood alongside university professors and doctoral students to present his senior thesis on gentrification in neighborhoods surrounding Los Angeles Metro stations at the Urban Affairs Association annual conference in Minneapolis. “I looked at the ...
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Friday, May 19, 2017
METRANS Research Assistants, John Ho and Julia Brown, were recognized as first place winners for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Story Maps Student Challenge. SCAG and Esri, a software company specializing in mapping and spatial data analytics, organized the Challenge for college and university students to display their research to more than 1,000 elected officials, planning practitioners and various public, private and non-profit stakeholders. Winners of the ...
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Friday, May 19, 2017
METRANS On the Move , the METRANS weekly student news and events e-bulletin, welcomes its new editor-in-chief. Second-year USC Price Master of Planning student Rui Zhang will be taking over supervision of all content sourcing and publication for the newsletter, following the graduation of 2016-2017 editor-in-chief Kaitlyn Zhang (no relation but quite a cool coincidence). Rui is entering this new role with abundant prior experience in publications editing, research support, and event coordination ...
METRANS UTC
Sunday, May 14, 2017
On April 27 th , the Los Angeles Chapter of WTS held its Transportation Résumé Book Mixer at Fehr & Peers Downtown Los Angeles office. Students were given opportunity to network with transportation professionals from the fields of planning, engineering, environment, public policy, and logistics. From left Nicole Guo, USC ViterbiMSCE 2017; Xiaonan Han, USC Viterbi MSEMT 2017; Todd Nugyen, WTS-LA Transportation Resume Book Chair; Xiaobei Wu, USC Viterbi MSEMT 2017; Efram Stone, USC ...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017
Kaitlyn (Kenan) Zhang, METRANS Editor-in-Chief & Publisher of the weekly METRANS student newsletter, graduated from the USC Price School of Public Policy this week with a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree and a Graduate Certificate in Civil Engineering – Transportation Systems. Although the METRANS staff is sorry to see her leave, we are immensely proud of her accomplishments. Kaitlyn began her career with METRANS as part of our events team, planning and hosting the 2016 Council of University ...
