Juan Carlos Munoz was awarded the first Gordon Newell Fellowship on Friday, March 22, 2002. The award, which is given to an outstanding graduate student in transportation, is intended to honor Newell, a professor emeritus of transportation engineering at UC Berkeley who died in an automobile accident in February 2001 at the age of 76. Munoz is a candidate for a Ph.D. in civil engineering. Carlos Daganzo, professor of civil engineering, and Newell's widow, Barbara, presented the award.

(From left) Carlos Daganzo, Barbara Newell, Juan Carlos Munoz and daughter Isabel and wife Paula. (The THINK sign occupied a prominent spot on the late Gordon Newell's desk.)

Carlos Daganzo with the Gordon Newell Fellowship plaque that will stay at UC Berkeley and Juan Carlos Munoz with his personal plaque.

Photos copyright Peg Skorpinski.