Dissertation Fellows

OTREC offers dissertation fellowships for Ph.D. candidates at OTREC and NITC member campuses to cover expenses for the recipient while working on the dissertation. The funded dissertation research must be on surface transportation topics that fit under the OTREC theme of advanced technology, integration of land use and transportation or healthy communities or NITC theme of safe, healthy, and sustainable transportation choices to foster livable communities. Priority is given to topics with a sustainable transportation focus.

Past dissertation fellowships have been awarded to:

• Calvin Tribby
• Sirisha Kothuri
• Susan Petheram
• Gail Meakins
• Arlie Adkins
• Joseph Broach
• Oliver Smith
• Nicole Iroz-Elardo