Mayra Chavez, Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at El Paso, received a U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center Student-of-the-Year award and was recognized at the 2019 CUTC Annual Awards Banquet on Saturday, January 12, 2019. Her thesis is titled “Assessing Children’s Spatiotemporal Exposures to Transportation Pollutants in Near-Road Communities” and her advisor is Professor Wen-Whai Li.

The photo includes Mayra with Wen-Whai and CTECH co-PI, Professor Yu Zhang, University of South Florida.