Three UCLA Transportation PhD Graduates Take Tenure-Track Faculty Positions

Jeffrey Brown (MA 1998, PhD 2003), Douglas Gregg Doyle (PhD 2003), and Daniel Baldwin Hess (PhD 2002) were each appointed to tenure-track faculty positions during the 2002-2003 academic year.

  • Jeffrey Brown will begin as an Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University in the fall of 2003. His dissertation is entitled “The Numbers Game: The Politics of the Federal Surface Transportation Program,” and was chaired by Professor Brian Taylor.
  • D. Gregg Doyle started his position as an Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at the California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obisbo last fall. Dr. Doyle filed his dissertation, “Only a Nobody Walks: The Decline of Pedestrian Trips in the United States,” during the winter 2003 quarter; Professor Randall Crane was the chair of his committee.
  • And Daniel Hess completed his dissertation, entitled “Reconciling Incompatible Zone Systems in Metropolitan Planning” and chaired by Professor Brian Taylor, in June 2002. Dr. Hess began a visiting position at the University of Buffalo — State University of New York in the fall; this spring he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Planning.

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