Colleen Callahan
wins the 2011 Neville A. Parker Award for the best transportation policy and
planning master’s capstone project in the U.S.

For the 11^th time in the past fourteen years, a UCLA Urban Planning student has won an award for the best transportation policy and planning master’s project, thesis, or dissertation from the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) in Washington, DC.  The CUTC (http://cutc.tamu.edu) was established in 1979 as the umbrella organization representing more than 70 major transportation research centers and institutes in the United States.

This year, Colleen Callahan, who is currently the Deputy Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation in the UCLA School of Public Affairs, won for her analysis of air pollution mitigation strategies in Southern California entitled, The Plane Truth – Air Quality Impacts of Airport Operations and Strategies for Sustainability:  A Case Study of the Los Angeles World Airports.  Ms. Callahan received her M.A. degree in Urban Planning at UCLA in June of 2010.  Before coming to UCLA, Ms. Callahan was the Manager of Air Quality Policy for the American Lung Association. She has also worked for the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute of Occidental College and at Adi Liberman and Associates, a public and government affairs practice specializing in environmental policy.  She is a founding Board Member of the Los Angeles Sustainability Collaborative, and holds a B.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy, Phi Beta Kappa, at Occidental College.