In the past week, I've had the pleasure of spending time with two former Valle Foundation recipients.
One was UW Alum, Cat Silva, who I met at the Velo-City Conference in Slovenia. She is doing her doctoral work in Bavaria. Cat told me that Germany has 7 Bicycle Professorships. She works for one of them and is building a bicycle focused master's program!
The other was my UW supervising professor, Dr. Ryan Avery. Ryan received the Valle scholarship to study at KTH, in Stockholm, 15 years ago. He introduced me to the folks, here, that helped me find Dr. Fariya Sharmeen, at KTH who invited me to work on the Bicification project.
Today, Ryan came for fika. I was pleased to introduce him to the KTH Transport & Systems Analysis division. The group enjoyed finding all the academic and professional connections we have! And everyone was impressed with how much Swedish he can still speak (Ryan credits the UW's Swedish language program!). And I think he's just great with languages.
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