News & Announcements
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, May 6, 2017
METRANS is proud to congratulate USC Price PhD in Urban Planning and Development, 2015, Sandip Chakrabarti, on joining the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad this fall as Assistant Professor in the Public Systems Group. Currently he is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Urban Studies at the University of New Orleans. He teaches courses in transportation planning, social policy and environmental justice. Chakrabarti received a Bachelor's in Architecture ...
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Sunday, April 30, 2017
METRANS researchers convened Southern California-based regional and city planners for the Metropolitan Transportation Management Certificate pilot course, a class conducted over four consecutive Fridays in February and March which addressed multi-modal transportation conflicts in urban areas. Participants in this course included employees of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) and Caltrans, as well as representatives from the office of Los Angeles City Council ...
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
In my previous column, I interviewed Jessica Meany, a woman who is working to change the transportation field in Los Angeles by making transit accessible to people of all incomes, ages, and cultures. Cyclists ride along the main streets during CicLAvia, Photo by Arpita Sharma This week, I explore how diversity might be changing the way we think about cycling. To most of us, diversity represents the inclusion of a variety of people from different cultural or racial backgrounds, but ...
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
METRANS is proud to introduce its newly awarded and funded research center, the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR UTC), led by the University of Southern California (USC), funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation. PSR will lead a region covering California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and the Pacific Island territories, and includes the following partners: California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) University of California, Davis (UC Davis) University ...
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
Devin Chan is currently enrolled in Global Logistics Specialist Professional Designation Program at California State Long Beach offered through the Center for International Trade and Transportation. He is also working as Logistic Apprentice at Kuehne+Nagel, Inc at Torrance, California. In this article, we share his journey to becoming an apprentice at Kuehne+Nagel, Inc. Chan was born in Paramount, California, USA, and grew up very close to Long Beach. “As for my family,” Chan ...
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Sunday, April 16, 2017
METRANS is proud to announce that PhD. candidate in Urban Planning and Development at the Price School of Public Policy at USC, Eun Jin Shin, was recently hired by Yale-NUS College, Singapore, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Urban Studies. Shin was born and raised in South Korea, where she completed her BS and MS degrees in Civil, Urban and Geosystem Engineering at Seoul National University. She then completed her Master’s of Urban Planning degree at University of Washington-Seattle, ...
