News & Announcements
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Saturday, October 26, 2019
Written in collaboration with USC Price dual degree Planning and Public Administration student Beatris Megerdichian and USC Price Master of Planning student Samirita Dabade
On Wednesday, September 18, METRANS PSR welcomed guest speakers from LA Metro to kickstart the Fall 2019 event series. This seminar focused on careers at LA Metro, attracting many students interested in the transportation sector.
Two outstanding professionals, Shalonda Baldwin, the Interim Executive ...
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Sunday, October 20, 2019
One in a series of articles featuring PSR students and their accomplishments.
Eduardo Marino, PhD candidate in the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at University of California, Irvine (UCI), is an international student from Barcelona, Spain. Marino completed his Civil Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. He is currently in his third year of the PhD program, and expects to complete his studies in the next two years.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Complete Streets Considerations for Freight and Emergency vehicles is a guidebook for incorporating the needs of freight activities and emergency services into the design and operation of complete streets. Under the leadership of Alison Conway, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, City College of New York, the guidebook was produced by faculty, staff and students at City College of New York, City University of New York, and the New York City Department of Transportation. ...
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Wednesday, October 9, 2019
The California Planning Foundation (CPF) recently awarded the 2019-2020 CPF scholarships for outstanding planning students in the State of California. Fourteen PSR students - five from the University of Southern California (USC), five from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), three from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and one from the University of California, Davis (UCD) received scholarships, along with twenty-two students from additional California Universities. Their ...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Codi Weisz, undergraduate student at USC Viterbi School of Engineering received the 2019 Women’s Transportation Seminar – Los Angeles (WTS-LA) Ava Doner Memorial Scholarship. WTS-LA is the Los Angeles chapter of the international organization, WTS, dedicated to building the future of global transportation through advancement of women. WTS scholarships support young women aspiring a professional career in transportation. Weisz is a sophomore student studying Civil Engineering with an emphasis ...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
This is the third in a series of articles dedicated to intern and concurrent work/school experiences - public sector, private sector and also non-profit sector. Sophia Greenberg is obtaining her Master’s degree in Urban Planning with an emphasis in Economic Development and a certificate in Real Estate Development at University of Southern California (USC), and completed her undergraduate degree in Economics with a minor in Spanish, also at USC. “I grew up in Culver City and I’m ...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
This is the second in a series of articles dedicated to intern and concurrent work/school experiences - public sector, private sector and also non-profit sector.
Intern Patrick Lewis, a second-year Master of Planning student at USC Sol Price School, is also the incoming president of USC's student-led tree planting and environmental justice organization, Trees by Trojans (TxT). He completed his undergraduate degree in sociology with a minor in Spanish at University of California, Davis and worked ...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Welcome back everyone and greetings to our new incoming students! As the Fall 2019 semester begins we would like to announce our upcoming events. This fall we welcome wonderful speakers and industry professionals to our seminars who will be sharing latest trends and their insights into the transportation field and skills critical for success. Here are the exciting events planned to date. To attend one of these events, please contact Zhanibek Baktygali at [email protected] . Weds, Sept 18: Great ...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2019
We are happy to announce a new series of articles dedicated to intern experiences. We are dividing this series of articles into three parts - public sector, private sector and non-profit sector. We start our series by featuring a student interning in the public sector, Dongyang Lin who is also a member of the METRANS events team. Dongyang Lin, second-year Master of Planning student at USC Price School, is an international student from Ganghzou, China. She completed her undergraduate and first ...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
The Institute of Transportation Engineers Southern California Chapter (ITE SoCal) and Orange County Traffic Engineers Council (OCTEC) invited six ITE student chapters to join them Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at Knott’s Berry Farm for their annual Job Fair, Dinner, and Student Presentations night. Students from PSR partner schools University of Southern California (USC), Long Beach State University (LBSU), University of California- Irvine (UCI), and University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) ...
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