The UCPRC turns research data into tools and practices used to improve California’s roads. Somayeh Nassiri, the center’s new director, is driven to advance the state’s leadership in pavement innovation and collaborating with transportation agencies across the nation.
Prof. Michele Barbato has been named as the incoming President of the American Society of Civil Engineers Engineering Mechanics Institute. The EMI is the premiere interdisciplinary organization of engineering mechanics, with a focus on addressing existing and emerging engineering and societal issues through research and the application of scientific and mathematical principles. Read Prof.
Alissa Kendall, the Ray B. Krone Endowed Professor of Environmental Engineering, has been named the new director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, or ITS-Davis, the Office of Research announced today (Sept. 15). Kendall succeeds founding director Dan Sperling, who has led the institute since its establishment in 1991.
Professor Miguel Jaller is appointed chair of the UC Davis Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Jaller is the co-director of the Institute of Transportation Studies' Sustainable Freight Research Program, where he researches sustainable transportation systems and humanitarian logistics.
Under the leadership of Professor Kari Watkins, the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies won $1.7 million in research funding for a Climate Change and Transportation Research Center in a national competition funded by the US Department of Transportation (DOT). The Center will advance research and technologies to support the Nation’s clean energy goals, accelerate decarbonization of the transportation sector, strengthen the resilience of the Nation’s transportation infrastructure, and address environmental inequities created by the transportation system.
