Second-year Urban Planning MA student Adina Ringler has been selected by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) to receive the Myra Frank Memorial Scholarship for 2006. She will receive her award at the group’s upcoming Annual Scholarship and Awards Dinner. The Myra L. Frank Memorial Scholarship was established in 2005 by the Los Angeles Chapter of WTS to encourage women to pursue career paths in transportation. The scholarship, in the amount of $5,000, is awarded to women pursuing graduate studies in transportation or a related field. The award is competitive and based on the applicant’s specific transportation involvement and goals, job skills and academic record. In her personal statement for the award, Ringler wrote, “When deciding to study Urban Planning, I knew that my education would not only come from the extraordinary professors at UCLA, but also from the city itself. The complexities and challenges of urban planning in Los Angeles provide an exemplary forum in which to study the connections between transportation, land use, and environmental protection. As a transportation planner, I hope to actively work towards new transportation geographies in Los Angeles.” Ringler said she became interested in transportation research in the Transportation Economics course taught by UCLA Urban Planning Professor Donald Shoup. Since taking the course she has become a graduate student researcher, working with Urban Planning faculty on transportation and green sector issues. Outside of UCLA she has worked as an intern with Global Green USA’s Green Building Resource Center in Santa Monica where she helped inform homeowners, architects, and developers about green building products and principles and organize monthly educational panel discussions on various green building topics. Ringler also is involved with Leaders in Sustainability with UCLA’s Institute of the Environment. The award honors the memory of Myra L. Frank, who was instrumental in the founding of the WTS/Los Angeles chapter and actively served as a WTS member for over 25 years. As Principal of Myra L Frank & Associates, Inc., she was responsible for preparation of environmental documents for many of the most significant transportation and public works projects sponsored by the California Department of Transportation, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Southern California Regional Rail Authority, Alameda Corridor, City of Los Angeles, and other agencies.