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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) Sometimes kids play in it, but with supervision. Anecdotally, I think it's contributed to speed reduction, but I don't think they did of study of prevailing speeds beforehand. It's not fancy. It's temporary.

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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. Self-directed worker For better or worse, a lot of work in academia happens without supervision. This was also the beginning of the Great Recession.