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Student Newsmakers:
College students in the headlines
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2004
honorees (from left) Olivia Or, Austin Minnich, Emery Sanford,
Kevin Simler, Anthony Paganini, Ryan Doan, and Priam Pillai.
Not pictured are Sarah Giddings, Ryan Hannink, and Matt Panzer.
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The 2004 Departmental Citations were awarded
at yearend to eight top graduating seniors, one from each of the
college’s eight departments, and the Bechtel Awards were
given to two engineering students for their achievement college-wide.
All 10 students were selected by College faculty from among 724
class of 2004 undergraduates for their academic achievements and
community activities. Citation awardees include Ryan Doan, BioE;
Sarah Giddings, CEE; Ryan Hannink, NE; Olivia Or, Eng. Sci.; Anthony
Paganini, IEOR; Matt Panzer, ME; Priam Pillai, MSE; and Kevin
Simler, EECS. The two Bechtel winners include Engineering Science
sophomore Austin Minnich, winner of the 2004 Bechtel Scholarship,
and ME senior Emery Sanford, winner of the Bechtel Achievement
Award.
Avijit Mukherjee took first prize in the Federal
Aviation Administration’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence
Student Paper Competition on Future Air Transportation Systems
and second prize in the Center’s poster competition. The
Ph.D. student in transportation engineering researches and develops
optimization models for air traffic flow management. His winning
paper discusses the benefits of optimization models to determine
the value of such measures as pre-departure delay of flights,
airborne holding while en route, and dynamic rerouting. His poster
presents an optimization model for managing traffic flow into
an airport whose arrival capacity falls below demand.
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Gian-Claudia Sciara
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Gian-Claudia Sciara, Ph.D. student in city and
regional planning, was awarded the Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship
by the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS). The award is
given to women graduate students in transportation and related
fields. Sciara, an active member of the WTS since 2001, works
with Martin Wachs, CEE professor and director of the Institute
of Transportation Studies. She helped the New York City chapter
develop and coordinate its mentoring program, which pairs young
professionals with senior women in the field. The mentoring was
symbiotic, she says. “WTS women helped inspire and energize
me to pursue my goal to earn a Ph.D.”
IEOR Ph.D. candidate Justin Tumlinson is the
second engineer ever and the first Berkeley engineer to win the
German Chancellor’s Scholarship for 2004. The scholarship,
established after the fall of the Berlin Wall, is an effort by
Germany to engage U.S. scholars in German industry. Tumlinson
was one of 10 scholars selected from hundreds of applicants to
receive the award, worth more than $50,000. He will apply IEOR
tools to the public policy and investment policy arena by studying
the German government’s investment incentive policy and
working with German venture capital firms.
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