Archive for the 'In the News' Category

Mentioned in Georgia Tech Civil Engineering News for ACRP

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

The Georgia Tech Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s newsletter included a writeup about the ACRP award I earned earlier this semester. It discusses the research project and the motivation behind the work.

Featured in NCSU Alumni Blog

Friday, September 30th, 2011

This weekend NC State plays Georgia Tech in football. As part of an ongoing series this football season, the NC State Alumni Association’s blog is doing a weekly feature on an alumnus who works or studies at that week’s opposing team’s campus. The blog, Red & White for Life, chose me as their Georgia Tech [...]

Fulbright Facebook Page

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Fulbright posted on their Facebook page earlier today the video interview conducted with me, which was recorded last year. For their post, they used the video as an alert to applicants that they have 38 days remaining until the application is due for 2011-2012.

Mentioned in Georgia Tech Civil Engineering News

Friday, May 21st, 2010

The Georgia Tech Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s newsletter included a writeup about the four NSF Graduate Research Fellowships recipients in the transportation group this year. The other three students besides myself are all in my graduate office: Brent Weigel, J.P. O’Har, and Brittany Luken. The article also congratulates the other two students in our [...]

Visiting Air Canada

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

In December of last year, Robert Milton visited our research group at Georgia Tech. As the former CEO of Air Canada, he arranged for us to travel to Montreal and spend a day at Air Canada’s headquarters.
During our recent visit, we met with the Vice President of Network Planning and the Vice President of Revenue [...]

Fulbright releases YouTube interview

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

In June, back at the Fulbright Pre-departure Orientation in Washington, D.C. which I helped facilitate at, I was interviewed by Fulbright staff for a series of videos they were producing about the Fulbright experience. They told me they’d let me know when it was up, but it actually got posted over three weeks ago! Check [...]

Mentioned in Fulbright’s 2007-2008 Annual Report

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

This year’s Fulbright Annual Report mentions my experience in its short section on Bangladesh. Each country has one to two short blurbs about Fulbright Scholars and Fulbright Students that visited in the last year. Also in the Bangladesh section is a blurb about Dr. Ahrar Ahmed from Black Hills State University in South Dakota. I [...]

Article in RPA’s Spotlight

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

An article I wrote for the Regional Plan Association is published this week in their online publication Spotlight On The Region.
The title is Boarding Buses in Bangladesh, a description of the transportation system in Dhaka, the unique aspects of the buses, and the infrastructure challenges Dhaka faces to update its system to meet its swelling [...]

U.S. Dept. of State’s Fulbright website article

Friday, June 13th, 2008

An article I wrote at the request for stories by the U.S. Fulbright program was chosen to be featured on the front page of the U.S. State Department’s Fulbright program website. It also is featured in the top bar of the Bangladesh specific page. I wrote about my experience during Ekushey February here in Dhaka, [...]

NC State Engineering E-news article

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

My blog was featured in the May 2008 issue of North Carolina State University’s Engineering Department’s E-newsletter. The article is titled Blogging from Bangladesh: Alumnus chronicles life in Asia and it did a great job of covering all aspects of my time here. It references some of the more exciting blog posts I’ve had in [...]