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NEWS Rudin Center Honors Transportation Leaders

firji lack Rudin joined Lee Sander, co-director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, and Wagner School Dean Jo Ivey Boufford in honoring the 2002 recipients of the Center’s annual Leadership in Transportation Awards at a January 31" reception held in Greenberg Lounge. The awards recognize the Francis Lombardi Iris Weinshall lohn Kaehny Joseph Hoeftnann Arthur Imperatore, Jr. outstanding work of individuals and agencies to advance the quality and efficiency of the director of Transportation Alternatives, winner This year’s ceremony also included a special region’s transportation system. This year’s of the Civic Leadership Award; and Joseph tribute to the late Lewis Rudin, a long-time honorees were; Francis Lombardi, chief engi­ Hoefmann, senior vice president of NYC Transit member of NYU’s Board of Trustees. The tribute neer of the Port Authority of New York and New and Arthur Imperatore, Jr., president of NY recognized the Rudin family’s continued and Jersey, winner of the Public Servant Award; Iris Waterway, who were given special tributes in generous financial support for NYU, and in Weinshall (MPA ’87), commissioner of the NYC honor of their efforts to provide transportation particular for the Center’s research and policy Department of Transportation, winner of the in the aftermath of the September ii*’’ terrorist work regarding urban transportation issues. Public Agency Award; John Kaehny, executive attack on the World Trade Center.

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I Letter from the Wagner Student Association President In my last letter, I detailed the three key focus areas for the 2001-2002 Wagner Student Association (WSA):

1 Community, Curriculum, and Career Development. Now, as the academic year winds down, I am happy to report that we were able to achieve considerable strides in each of these areas. But we did not go it Laurel Molloy From left to right: Lee Sander, co-director of the Rudin Center for alone. In fact, our success has been due in great Transportation Policy & Management; Jack Rudin, brother of the late Jack Rudin, NYU Trustee; and Wagner School Dean Jo Ivey Boufford. part to the collective efforts of Wagner’s student body, faculty, administrators, and alumni.

Taub, Furman Centers Launch Throughout the year, there has been an abundance of topical and social events sponsored by student groups, academic programs and specializa­ Housing Breakfast Series tions, and Wagner offices. Each one has served as a forum for learning outside of the classroom - about the world around us, about the field of The Taub Urban Policy Research Center and the Furman Center For Real public service, about ourselves, about one another. We’ve had everything Estate and Urban Policy have begun a monthly breakfast series on from trips to local museums and waterfronts, to expert panels and housing. The first breakfast on February 28th featured Jerilyn Perine, lectures, to service projects in New York City and beyond. commissioner of the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development and a former Wagner graduate student in urban planning, Notably, two of the year’s most widely attended events were the fall and who spoke on “New Directions in Housing Policy.” spring Town Hall sessions. Intended to serve as an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to collectively discuss ways to enhance the Center for Excellence Wins Wagner experience, these meetings proved highly productive. They generated a number of ideas that have since been realized and others Kellogg Grant that are in the process of being implemented.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recently awarded a $275,000 grant to the In addition to being the WSA’s guiding principles for 2001-2002, NYU Center for Excellence in NYC Governance for the purpose of aiding Community, Curriculum, and Career Development are perhaps the three the Center’s efforts to assure that a diverse group of communities has a primary reasons that students attend Wagner, making improvements in voice in the urban planning process to rebuild lower Mrahattan. these areas all the more significant and promising. A portion of the grant helped fund the Center’s Involvement with the Sincerely, Listening to the City event of February 7, 2002. The balance will support other CFE projects to enhance citizen engagement around the rebuilding Laurel Molloy process, including follow-up events planned by the Civic Alliance. WSA President

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