Stacey Eisenman was the UTRC Student of the Year for 2003. Ms. Eisenman is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2002 she received a BS in Civil Engineering and in 2003 she received an MS in Civil Engineering. In the fall of 2003, Ms. Eisenman began her doctoral program at the University of Maryland (College Park), where she was awarded the University Fellowship and joined the Maryland Transportation Initiative. Ms. Eisenman was selected for the Student of the Year in Region II because of her outstanding academic achievements and her demonstrated research talents. She already has six conference papers to her credit (two of which she will be presenting at TRB this coming January). Two of these should become journal articles. She also has been the author or co-author of three additional presentations. Six of these nine conference papers / presentations, she has or will given personally. She is already on her way to becoming a highly successful professor, which is her career goal. Her research interests are in the area of traffic operations, including work on the Highway Capacity Manual Applications Guidebook, operational and safety analyses of roundabouts, and data collection and reduction strategies. She is currently working in the area of roundabout simulation, performance estimation and prediction. Her professional affiliations include TRB, ITE, ITS America, ASCE, and ASEE.