I am honored to announce that I was awarded tenure as associate professor this year, starting september 2021. Thank you so much to everyone in the community, my department, and my team who collaborated, challenged, supported and taught me to be a better researcher!

Researchers at Northwestern University, UC-Berkeley, and UT-Austin’s McCombs School of Business are collaborating on research and outreach activities through a Tier I University Transportation Center on Telemobility aimed at assessing how ICT technologies and e-commerce processes will impact the demand for travel and mobility in the future, taking into consideration lessons learned from this dramatic natural experiment. Stathopoulos and PhD student Maher Said are working in the Behavior and Data Team.

Amanda Stathopoulos and Agnes Horvat from the NU School of Communication was awarded Seed Funding from the NU Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience to Support Innovative, High-Risk, and/or Enabling Collaborative Research to Enhance Engineering Sustainability and Resilience. They will define community vulnerability and examine how households behave when a public health crises overlaps with acute emergencies.

PhD student Elisa Borowski will work on this project.

The proposed study by Amanda Stathopoulos and Elisa Borowski was among 18 projects selected for NHC funding and will examine the short- and long-term consequences of the current COVID- 19 crisis on support networks to better understand the resilience of social capital to stay-at-home mandates. The project is titled "Resilience of Social Capital Networks to Social Distancing: Multiscale Evolution of Physical and Virtual Support Networks"

Lab member Maher Said and his group (Emma Zajdela, applied mathematics PhD student, and Eugene Wickett, IEMS PhD student) participated in the 2^nd Annual Loyola School of Business Supply Chain Data Analytics Competition

Jason is awarded the 2018 DOT Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship for research on the impact on ride-sourcing.

Research by Alec Biehl was featured in the Association for Psychological Science's. The study was published in the Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour and investigates travel behavior change processes regarding the adoption of active modes.

Amanda Stathopoulos, Wei Chen and Maher Said were awarded an intramural research grant as part of the Finite Earth initiative for the project "Shaping energy futures: understanding adoption of clean technology using novel data sources "

Amanda Stathopoulos and Yoram Shiftan organized the IATBR workshop on Automation and Self-Driving in Santa Barbara in July. The workshop focused on using structured interactive idea-generation to build innovative research needs statements for an automated vehicle future. A link to the reports is available at http://www.iatbr2018.org/workshop-reports.html

Award for Best Research on Innovation paper by TRB Urban Freight Transportation Committee for joint work with Alireza Ermagun and Ali Shamshiripour on "Performance Analysis of Crowd-shipping in Urban and Suburban Areas"

Amanda Stathopoulos was awarded the Alumnae award for curriculum development at Northwestern. Her course "Engineering Possibilities: Decision Science in the Age of Smart Technologies" will focus on connecting undergraduate students’ understanding of civil engineering with knowledge of current societal challenges. They will learn to identify problems in urban environments and customize engineering solutions for individual communities and cultures.