Urban Planning alumni Jeff Brown ( Ph.D. Urban Planning) and Daniel Hess (Ph.D UrbanPlanning), and Donald Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning, won the Chester Rapkin Award for the best Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER) paper for 2004 for their study of university transit pass programs. The title of their paper, “Fare-free Public Transit at Universities,” was published in the Fall edition of JPER in September (vol. 23, issue 01). “This is UCLA's second Rapkin Award in three years on a transportation topic and another fine honor for the Urban Planning program and for transportation studies at UCLA,” said Urban Planning Department Vice Chair Brian Taylor. Jeffrey Brown is now an Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University, and Hess is now an Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Urban Planning professors Anatasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Robin Liggett, and Hiroyuki Iseki (Ph.D. Urban Planning) won the 2002 award for their paper on the geography of transit crime. The Journal of Planning Education and Research is published by Sage Publications in association with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. The quarterly publication is a forum for planning educators and to present results from teaching and research that both advances the profession and improves planning practice.