Gengen He receives NSF EAPSI Award

PhD student, Gengen He, has been selected by the U.S. National Science Foundation to receive an EAPSI (East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes) award. This is a very competitive award open to U.S. graduate students in science, engineering, and education. The total award is approximately $15,000. Gengen will spend three months (June – August 2013) conducting research with Dr. Toru Ishikawa at the University of Tokyo in Japan. His project entitled "Investigating Collaborative Navigation in a Culturally Unfamiliar Setting" combines research in transportation, technology, human cognition, and behavior.