I. Welcome:

a. Board Members, Management Team and Guests

a. In Academia – at both the undergraduate and graduate level, 23 courses in 9 different disciplines were either modified or added to course offerings with transportation themes as one aspect of the curriculum.
b. Offered a series of lectures with the Center’s theme as the focus
c. Developed theme-based instructional resources for the Education Library for a total of over 300 resources for teachers and students
d. Offered professors the opportunity to increase the holdings in the Campus Library that would enhance their courses related to the theme of the Center. Presently resources number 53 in the library.
e. Awarded 32 grants to educators and environmental organizations for a total of $171, 490. There were 5 research projects and 27 curriculum projects.
f. Honored two students of the year for their work with UTC grants. One – Robert Doe, an Assumption College student and Ping Tai, a Doherty High School Student.
g. Technology transfer involves the dissemination of the work that has been done as a result of the UTC.

• Three conferences were held including the Transportation Expo.
• Two curricular workshops were offered for teachers in science and social studies.
• And a website was developed providing a resource for educators at all grade levels and a means of publishing the curricular lessons and research accomplished by the grant recepients.

III. Funding

• The total grant awarded for the four years was $2,941,780. Of that, $1,913,237 has or will be used for the new science facility.
• $725,463 went into Direct Costs of the Center.
• And $295,633 went into Indirect Costs for the running of the Center
• In four years, $2,680,638 of the grant is accounted for with $261,142
  remaining.
• The Center will continue to function until May 2004 and will work with a budget of $41,932 - the remainder of the funds are accounted for in the above figures.

IV. 5th year extension projects

• The final Projects Conference will be September 19, 2003 starting with registration at 2:30. All are invited.
• The curriculum projects and research project will be converted and put on the Center’s website.
• The Website will be brought up to date with all the projects and required reports for RSPA.
• Co-sponsoring a scholarship event with the Women’s Transportation Seminar in October here at Assumption College.
• Research will be done by the Interim Director on “What are the Best Practices for the teaching of transportation issues in grades K-12?” The results of the research will be presented on the website.

V. I would like to thank Assumption College for providing the opportunity to work on this grant because it has benefited so many educators at all levels and as an educator, I can appreciate the results of our work. I would like to thank the management team for their presence and guidance over the four years. And I would also like to thank the Board members who have given of their time and expertise to help make our endeavors a success.

I would like to thank Dr. Charles Estes for his leadership, guidance and support as the Director of the Center for its first three years. And I would like to thank Mona Heffernan for all that she has done to provide a smooth running of the Center Office and events.

I would like to thank the Community here at Assumption College for supporting the Center by including its theme into their courses and for being available to teach or present at our summer institutes.

Thank you all for coming and supporting the Center throughout these past four years.