Mayrai Gindy, Rutgers University, was selected as the UTRC Student of the Year for 2001. She was honored at the 11th Annual Student of the Year Awards at TRB. Ms. Gindy is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in civil and environmental engineering at Rutgers University. She received her bachelors of science degree in civil engineering, also from Rutgers, with a 4.0 grade point average. As a graduate student, Mayrai has received the AITE Graduate Scholarship, a Center of Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation Graduate Fellowship, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Her current research project is the Instrumentation and Monitoring of the New Doremus Avenue Bridge, in Newark, New Jersey. The Doremus Avenue Bridge is the first part of the Portway International/ International Corridor Program, a series of freight improvement projects. It is also the first bridge to be designed according to the new Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) – American Association of Transportation Official (AASHTO) Bridge Specifications in the State of New Jersey.