Grad student Bortiorkor Alabi has been awarded the 2019-2020 Greater Indianapolis Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) Chapter Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes an outstanding graduate female in the transportation industry and academia. The goal is to support and encourage future female leaders in transportation to be successful.

She will receive her award at the WTS Greater Indianapolis chapter's annual Swings for Scholarship event on April 15th, 2020, in Fishers, IN.

Bortiorkor Alabi is an MS student working with Professor Samuel Labi in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT). She is also a PhD student at the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology working with Dr. Julius Keller, and a graduate assistant working with Dr. Audeen Fentiman.