UCLA Urban Planning Students Awarded 2008 Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships

Urban Planning Ph.D. student Eric Morris has been selected to
receive a 2008 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship from the
U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration.

The purpose of the Fellowship Program is to attract qualified students
to the field of tranportation and research, and advance workforce
development. Morris will receive nearly $70,000 and will attend the
annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in January in
Washington, D.C.

Urban Planning M.A. student Stephen Brumbaugh also is the recipient of a 2008 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate
Fellowship in the amount of $1,500. Brumbaugh also will attend the TRB
meeting in Washington, D.C.

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