ITS Student Researchers Awarded Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has awarded  Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships to Transportation Policy and Planning Ph.D. students Jaimee Lederman and Kelcie Ralph and second-year Master of Urban and Regional Planning student Anne Brown.

The award, established as part of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, recognizes students pursuing transportation-related degrees and aims to attract the brightest minds in the field to the transportation workforce.

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