Wednesday, December 11, 2002
FHWA 47-02
Contact: Bill Outlaw
Telephone: 202-366-0660
U.S. Transportation Secretary Mineta Announces Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Recipients
U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today announced the recipients
of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Dwight David Eisenhower
Transportation Fellowships. The
program supports study and research in transportation by students – college juniors and seniors and master’s and doctoral degree candidates
– as well as by selected faculty.
“These fellowships help underscore our commitment to education and to
providing the workforce necessary for the advancement of transportation in the
future,” U. S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said.
“Communities throughout this country face a continuing need for skilled
transportation workers. These
fellowships represent an investment in human resources for future transportation
needs.”
The Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program was established in 1992
under the provisions of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of
1991 and was re-authorized in 1998 by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st
Century. It annually seeks to
attract the best and brightest minds to the field of transportation research and
the transportation workforce. It
encompasses all modes of transportation.
Selection criteria for student awards include applicants’ academic
achievements, recommendations and likelihood for pursuit of a career in
transportation. The FHWA’s
National Highway Institute manages the program.
“The Eisenhower Transportation fellowship program is one example of our
outreach efforts to attract the best and brightest minds to the transportation
industry,” FHWA Administrator Mary E. Peters said.
“Through this program we will expose students to the wealth of career
opportunities in transportation.”
Eisenhower Fellowship Awards are presented in six categories: Graduate
(GRAD), Grants for Research (GRF), Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCU), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), Tribal Colleges (TC) and Faculty
(FF). Since its inception, the
program has been funded at $2 million per year and has supported approximately
2000 students and faculty.
The 2002 Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship recipients include the
following:
Alabama: Michael G. Marshall (HBCU) and Thomas J. Nunez (HBCU), Alabama A&M
University, Montgomery.
Arkansas: Steven R. Beam Jr. (GRAD), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Casandra
A. Sanders (HBCU) and Angela D. Jackson (HBCU), Philander Smith College, Little
Rock.
California: Karen Frick (GRAD) and Natasha Goguts (GRAD), University of California-
Berkeley; Deborah Salon (GRAD), University of California-Davis; Constance
Boussalis (HSI), Kaolyn Mannino (HSI), Rosalba Santana (HSI), Alexander Tascon (HSI)
and Hassan Hashemian, Ph.D. (FF), California State University-Los Angeles.
Florida: Darnell Haney (HBCU), Darin Richardson (HBCU) and Clive Staple (HBCU),
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee; Natasha J. Yacinthe (GRAD), Florida
Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
Georgia: Brian M. Lewis (GRAD) and Danena L. Lewis, (GRAD), Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta; Elicia Hargrove (HBCU), Albany State University; Teri Fair
(HBCU), Elijah Jarrett (HBCU) and Erica Knight (HBCU), Clark Atlanta University,
Atlanta; LaTonya Johnson (GRF), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
Illinois: Jacob E. Hiller (GRAD), University of Illinois-Urbana.
Iowa: Justin
Doornink (GRAD), Iowa State University, Ames.
Louisiana: Samuel Boggan (HBCU), Alison Ford (HBCU) and Symoane Mizzell (HBCU),
Southern University A&M College-Baton Rouge; Laurence Lambert (GRF),
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
Maryland: LaTasha Peele (HBCU), Andrew Burke (HBCU), Kevin Sullivan (HBCU) and
Ronald Vaughn Jr. (HBCU), Morgan State University, Baltimore.
Massachusetts: Pericles C. Zegras (GRAD), Frances Switkes (GRAD), and Thomas E.
Hutchison (GRAD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Andreas
Savvides (GRF), Harvard University, Cambridge.
Michigan: Virginia P. Sisiopiku, Ph.D. (FF), Michigan State University, Lansing.
New Jersey: John L. Renne (GRAD), Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
North Carolina: Lynnia Bethea (HBCU), Tanya King (HBCU) and J. Candace Underwood (HBCU),
North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro; Brandie Flemming (HBCU),
Camilla Stanley (HBCU), Ayesha Williams (HBCU) and Kimberlee Wynn (HBCU),
Winston-Salem State University.
Oklahoma: Byron Bolton (HBCU), Dekisha Carter-Smith (HBCU), Tiffany Lowe (HBCU),
Erica Morgan (HBCU), Porsha Richardson (HBCU) and Marion Kay Wachtstetter (FF),
Langston University.
Oregon: Susan E. Lee (GRAD), Portland State University.
Puerto Rico: Isabel Diaz-Godineaux (HSI), Miguel Nieves-Kim (HSI), Lynette Alicea-Leon
(HSI), Erika Alicea-Meidna (HSI), Magaly Colon-Nieves (HSI), Lizaida
Ramos-Troche (HSI) and Rosana Aguilar-Zapata (HSI), University of Puerto Rico-
Mayaguez.
South Carolina: Johnell O. Brooks (GRAD), Clemson University; David Amaker, (HBCU),
Brandon J. Chapman (HBCU), Jacqueline T. Davis (HBCU), Shirlonda Hambrick (HBCU),
Vickey McNeil (HBCU) and Sojourner Stokes, (HBCU), Benedict College, Columbia;
Seneca Dixon (HBCU), Dylan Eagleton (HBCU), Khaleedah Stroman (HBCU), South
Carolina State University, Orangeburg.
Tennessee: Kiana Barnes (HBCU), Lashun King (HBCU), Nicole McClain (HBCU) and Khalid
Woods (HBCU), Tennessee State University, Nashville.
Texas: Patricia Dillon (HBCU), Douglas Russell (HBCU) and Keith Taylor (HBCU),
Texas Southern University, Houston; Theresa Black (HBCU) and Tenika G. Brown (HBCU),
Prairie View A&M University; Allison M. Lockwood (GRAD), University of
Texas-Austin; Katherine Hoyt (HSI), Christopher Bollig (HSI), Alejandro Reyna (HSI)
and Gabriel Villarreal (HSI), University of Texas -San Antonio; Michael J.
Alvarez (HSI), Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Gisel Alvarado (HSI), Tommy
Fan (HSI), Gabriela Mares (HSI), Robert Williams (HSI) and Hong-Sioe Oey, Ph.D.
(FF), University of Texas-El Paso.
Virginia:
Matthew W. Green (GRAD), University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Michael Morris
(HBCU) and Marcus Sale (HBCU), Hampton University; Treymayne Albert (HBCU),
Feleshia Ballou (HBCU), Ayanna Gormley (HBCU), LaTonya Hill (HBCU) and Charity
Williams (HBCU), Virginia State University, Petersburg.
Washington: Ala R. Abbas (GRF), Washington State University, Pullman.
Washington, DC: Charles O. Oluokun (GRAD), The George Washington University; Suzannah
Codlin (HBCU), Christine Earle (HBCU), Lauriston Lawrence (HBCU) and Omar
Stephenson (HBCU), Howard University.
Wisconsin: James M. Tinjum (GRAD), University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Canada: Talia McCray, Ph.D. (FF), L'Universite Laval, Sainte-Foy, Quebec.
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