Apply now for the 2010 University Student Scholars Program
Dec. 17 is the deadline for applications to the University Student Scholars Program sponsored by the National Center on Senior Transportation. Amounts of up to $2,000 will be awarded to graduate-level students to conduct projects that expand upon current transportation/mobility-related efforts that benefit older adults and transportation service delivery networks.

First event added to 2010 calendar: “Innovations in Senior Transportation”
Jan. 27 audio conference will feature outcomes of the NCST’s seven demonstration grant projects conducted in 2008-09. 

NCST is pleased to announce new resource in the online Library
“Personal Profiles: Older Adults Who Have Transitioned from Private Automobile to Public Transit Use” provides background information on mobility for older adults with disabilities and profiles five individuals who have successfully made the transition from personal vehicle to public transportation.

NCST to sponsor interest group session at GSA meeting
"Creative Approaches to Healthy Aging" is the theme of next week’s 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of The Gerontological Society of America in Atlanta, Ga., and NCST will inject a transportation focus to the mix.

Easter Seals Project ACTION announces community training opportunity
NCST’s Easter Seals transportation partner, Project ACTION, has assembled a free two-hour training activity useful to a wide range of community interests, including those of older adults.

New online course is about older adults who conclude their driving years
Boston University’s Institute for Geriatric Social Work is committed to developing the workforce of social workers to meet the challenges of a growing and changing population of older Americans..