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Hello,
I am Nayla El-Kork ’00 alumni and I am
writing this email to present to you my deep-
est thanks:
I am right now living in France, continu-
ing my PhD studies in physics, and yesterday
after having had a really hard day I got
happily surprised by finding the IC Newsletter
(summer 2007) in my mailbox. You can not
imagine how this meant to me, it was as if I
had been home again: I eagerly read each
and every word, remembering the nicest mo-
ments ever , trying to know what was going
on, at what used to be ( and still is of
course) my second home!! Of course, I read
it over again this morning, in the metro,
on my way to work, just to start my day on a
good mood!!!
As you know living outside the country is
not easy and that little gesture from IC re-
ally made a difference for me. IC always did
and always will amaze me, in whatever way
it is…
Thank you very much again.
Sincerely yours,
Nayla El Kork
Alumni News
Hani S. Mahmassani ‘73
has been
named the William A. Patterson Dis-
tinguished Chair in Transportation
at Northwestern University, with a
primary appointment in the Depart-
ment of Civil and Environmental
Engineering.
“Hani Mahmassani is recognized
around the globe as a leader in
transportation research,” said Joseph
Schofer, interim director of the Trans-
portation Center. “Bringing him to
Northwestern, with our 50-year tradi-
tion of excellence in this field and our
already strong faculty, will advance our
programs to another level.”
Mahmassani attended IC for two
years before graduating in 1973.
Since 2002, Mahmassani was the
first holder of the Charles Irish Sr.
Chair in Civil and Environmental
Engineering at the University of Mary-
land. Before joining the University of
Maryland, he was on the faculty at the
University of Texas at Austin for 20
years, where he was most recently the
A. Abou-Ayyash Centennial Profes-
sor in Transportation Engineering,
professor of management science and
information systems, and director of
the Advanced Institute for Transporta-
tion Infrastructure Engineering and
Management.
The editor-in-chief of Transporta-
tion Science, Mahmassani is also the
associate editor of Transportation Re-
search C: Emerging Technologies and
of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent
Transportation Systems.
His research areas include multi-
modal transportation systems analysis,
planning and operations, dynamic
network modeling and optimization,
transit network planning and design,
dynamics of user behavior and tele-
matics, telecommunication-transpor-
tation interactions, large-scale human
infrastructure systems, and real-time
operation of logistics and distribution
systems.
Press Release from the Transportation
Center at Northwestern University
Hani S. Mahmassani named William A. Patterson
Distinguished Chair in Transportation