Leveraging Statistics to Improve Data Quality

UAP Assistant Professor Ralph Hall and Assistant Research Professor of Statistics Eric Vance have released a new video that highlights their efforts to leverage technology and statistics to advance quality data collection efforts in Africa.  The initiative is part of an impact evaluation project that Hall and Vance are conducting on behalf of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

The 16-minute video was created at the request of UAP Professor Tom Sanchez and will be part of the new TechniCity MOOC (massive open online course) that Sanchez will be co-teaching in summer 2013 with Jennifer Evans-Cowley/Ohio State University.

The video contains many imagines and several clips from the fieldwork conducted during 2011, Hall noted, and it features several VT graduate students, who each played an important role in the research.

New Study Examines Extent of #Sustainable Transportation in #TRB Research Study Statements

UAP Assistant Professor Ralph Hall and Graduate Research Assistant Erin Puckett recently presented the results of a quantitative analysis that considered the degree to which Transportation Research Board research statements reflect sustainability objectives.  The findings were presented at the Sustainable Transportation Indicators Subcommittee during the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington D.C.

Dr. Hall is research director for the Transportation and Sustainability Committee of the TRB. To read the report, visit http://ralphphall.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/trb-rns-analysis/.

Book by UAP's Ralph Hall, coauthor Nicholas Ashford Recognized with 2012 Green Book Festival Award

UAP's Ralph Hall

 

Technology, Globalization and Sustainable Development, written by Dr. Nicholas A. Ashford and UAP's Dr. Ralph P. Hall, has been named the winner of the 2012 Green Book Festival in the Business category. A panel of judges determined the festival winners based on the criteria of 1) The book's overall writing style and presentation and 2) the book's potential for enhancing understanding of the environment and related issues.  Read more about the book at Yale University Press.

Faculty Fellow Showcase: Ralph Hall

UAP's Ralph Hall in Senegal

New Profile on UAP's Ralph Hall from Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute:

"Faculty Fellow Ralph Hall, assistant professor in the Urban Affairs and Planning program in the School of Public and International Affairs, explores the transdisciplinary approach to solving sustainability problems and its applications in many corners of the world."  Read more