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Abkowitz earns Hochman Lifetime Achievement Award from TRB

Feb. 23, 2016—Mark Abkowitz, a Vanderbilt University professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies, recently won the Charles H. Hochman Lifetime Achievement Award from the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. In the citation, the board pointed out that Abkowitz had served on the Committee on the...

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GIS isn’t just a tool to enliven high school geography lessons

Aug. 16, 2011—  Geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial technologies (GT) have moved into math and science courses at multiple levels, and teachers are learning how to integrate these tools into curriculums. Helping them is Janey Camp, research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University. Camp has received funding from Metro Nashville Public Schools...

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