SafeTREC's Aqshems Nichols and alum Kate Gosselin Awarded 2021 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship

December 15, 2021

Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Eisenhower Fellowships!A collage of the nine UC Berkeley students at ITS that received the Eisenhower Fellowship

This year, the prestigious Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) awarded fellowships to nine UC Berkeley students affiliated with the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS).

Recipients included UC Berkeley SafeTREC's Graduate Student Researcher Aqshems Nichols, a Civil Environmental and Engineering (CEE) doctoral student and former SafeTREC Research Analyst Kate Gosselin, who is also currently a CEE doctoral student. Visit the ITS website to learn more about their award and research interests! 


The Eisenhower Fellowship

The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) is a program through the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) that awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines (PDF). This program advances the transportation workforce by helping to attract the nation's brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advanced degrees, and helping to retain top talent in the U.S. transportation industry.