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MANHATTAN COLLEGE ENGINEERING PROFESSOR RECEIVES GRANT FOR ESSENTIAL TRANSPORTATION STUDY

Stamford, Conn., resident Scott Lowe gets backing for transportation proposal.

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Dr. Scott Lowe, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Manhattan College, has been awarded a grant by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) for his proposal, “Air Quality and Transportation in the New York Area.” The grant was awarded Thursday, September 8, 2005, at the Council’s inaugural September 11th Memorial Program Awards ceremony held in its New York City office. The grant is part of four inaugural planning awards and four student research projects, with a value of more than $548,000, for innovative transportation planning studies in the region. Other recipients of the planning awards included Hunt’s Point Economic Development Corporation, New York University and WE ACT for Environmental Justice.

Lowe and the College’s department of civil and environmental engineering, along with Rockland County, will participate in a proposed $79,680 yearlong project to develop a regional scale air quality model that will focus on transportation-related air issues. This model will be able to take transportation-related information, such as emissions, and predict the resulting air quality concentrations.

The September 11th Memorial Program Awards honor the memories of former NYMTC employees Ignatius Adanga, Charles Lesperance and See Wong Shum, all of whom lost their lives in the World Trade Center attacks. The program was established as a living memorial to

honor their work by educating and motivating people interested in transportation technology and planning, and to encourage innovations in planning activities. The program sets aside funds for publicly solicited transportation planning projects throughout the region, as well as for assisting students in transportation planning and related information technology research.

Recipients of the academic research awards included students at City College of New York, Columbia University and Rutgers University. Each student is pursuing advanced degrees in civil engineering and urban planning.

Lowe, who resides in Stamford, Conn., has taught civil engineering and environmental engineering at the College for 10 years. He also teaches a graduate course on air quality modeling.

The NYMTC is a regional council of governments and transportation providers. The Council provides a collaborative planning forum to address transportation issues from a regional perspective and plans and makes decisions on the use of federal transportation funds.

Manhattan College, founded in 1853, is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering.

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