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Attached is a Call for Abstracts for a session the TRB-wide Young Members Council is sponsoring at the 2014 Annual Meeting entitled "Emerging Professionals: Investing in our Future."  This session is aimed at Young Members (age 35 and under) and requires an abstract instead of a full paper.  The intent of this session is to get exposure for transportation research or projects and to provide students and young members the experience of presenting at TRB in a podium or poster session. Therefore, the abstracts should reflect ongoing research, case studies, or other suitable topics being conducted by graduate students (both Master and Doctorate) and practicing young members across all transportation modes and TRB Groups that are not fully complete or in a format ready for a traditional TRB paper peer review.

This session will create a learning environment for each activity leading to and beyond the presentation by providing coaching, constructive input, and encouragement along each step including: feedback on the abstracts, guidance on effective and clear presentations, brief presentation feedback from a hand-selected panel, and ideas and suggestions on enhancing the presentation delivery.

Abstracts are due by September 10, 2013.  Submission instructions and additional information about the Session is included in the attachment.

Please feel free to share this opportunity with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you,
Bevan Kirley
Safety and Systems Users Group Representative to the Young Members Council

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Bevan Kirley

Research Associate

UNC Highway Safety Research Center

730 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 300 CB# 3430

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

phone: 919-962-5836

fax: 919-962-8710

http://www.hsrc.unc.edu

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