Minutes of the Joint Meeting of the Research and Educational Advisory Boards
31 March 2000. This meeting was held on a train while travelling to the restored Woonsocket train depot which is now occupied by the National Park Service's Corridor Commission offices

Board Appreciation Meeting - September 5, 2003

The UTC sponsors two types of research; scientific research and curricular research. View pictures from the 2000 awards presentation ceremony.
Grant awards: 2000
Grant awards: 2001
Grant awards: 2002
Grant awards: 2003

Mr. Dartagnon Townes, manager of the West Boylston WalMart, presented a $5,000.00 Environmental Grant from the WalMart Foundation to the UTC to support and give special recognition to the Quinsigamond School Curriculum Project.

The newly renovated Union Station in Worcester, MA was the site of the first Transportation Career Expo sponsored by the University Transportation Center/Assumption College held on May 25, 2001

Standing on the Providence & Worcester Railroad bridge as it crosses the Blackstone River at Millville, Massachusetts, you are looking upstream to a point on the river bank where canal boats exited and entered the river via the lock just beyond the trees to the right of that site.

View pictures of the Blackstone River and learn about it's history.

June 22-June 29, 2001: 9:00am-4:00pm, outline of program and pictures for Roads, Runoff, and Water Quality: Calculator-Based Assessment Institute.
Participants learned and practiced the modern techniques used by scientists to investigate environmental problems with the goal of teaching these practices in their own classrooms.

July 1-3, 8-11, 2002: Railroad Ties in the Blackstone Valley - A workshop for Middle School Social Studies Teachers. An opportunity for teachers to research and develop lesson plans, interdisciplinary units and activies using primary sources, guest speakers, and site visits to important places in the history of the Providence and Worcester Railroad in the Blackstone Valley.

Through the generosity of the Providence and Worcester Railroad, the Worcester Public School Teachers were able to experience a moving inservice day as they traveled by train to Woonsocket, RI.

The Ecology Club was started at the beginning of the Fall 2000 semester at Assumption College through the efforts of the UTC.

See pictures of the first Ecology club clean up day, November 2000.

Student of the year

2000 -- Robert Doe
Rob is the first undergraduate student in the nation to receive this prestigious UTC Student of the Year Award with its $1,000.00 prize.

2001-- Ping Tai

The University Transportation Center is pleased to announce the selection of Ms. Yuet Ping Tai as this year's recepient of the Student of the Year Award. Ping is our country's first high school student to receive this prestigious recognition.