WASHINGTON - The Transportation Research Board (TRB) today announced the 2025 class of Minority Student Fellows. As part of TRB's commitment to increasing diversity and inclusiveness in transportation, the
Minority Student Fellows Program funds students from minority-serving institutions to attend and present their research at the TRB Annual Meeting and engage with TRB's network of transportation professionals.
To help ensure that solutions to the nation's transportation problems are addressed by people from a variety of backgrounds, TRB established the Minority Student Fellows Program in 2010 to explore research, ideas, and solutions from diverse perspectives. The program works to increase the number of individuals from underrepresented groups in the transportation field and in TRB activities.
Twenty-three undergraduates and one graduate student studying in disciplines that include civil engineering, transportation systems engineering, electrical engineering, criminal justice, environmental science, and computer science have been selected to take part in the program in 2025. The fellows will participate in the 2025 annual meeting with their own poster session and numerous other activities, including a daylong orientation on the first day of the annual meeting, the new attendee welcome event, a networking lunch, Young Members Council sessions, and committee meetings. Members of the cohort will be paired with annual meeting mentors with whom they are matched based on academic and professional goals.
The students selected are:
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration provides funding for half of the students in the program, and a number of annual meeting attendees provide support through donations they make when registering for the TRB Annual Meeting. The program has also received financial support from the Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification and the National Southern Plains Transportation Center, both at the University of Texas at El Paso; the North Central Texas Council of Governments; Cambridge Systematics; VHB; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and the state departments of transportation in North Carolina and Tennessee to support individual fellows.
TRB is a program unit of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - private, nonprofit institutions that provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science, engineering, and medicine. The National Academies operate under an 1863 congressional charter to the National Academy of Sciences, signed by President Lincoln.