Susan Hanson, Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the School of Geography at Clark University, has been elected by the members of the National Academy of Sciences to serve a three-year term on its governing council. Hanson currently serves as Chair of the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) Subcommittee for National Research Council Oversight (NRC) and is a member of the TRB Executive Committee.
Dr. Hanson has been named by the Association of American Geographers as the 2015 recipient of the AAG Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography, which is given annually to an individual geographer or team of geographers that has demonstrated originality, creativity and significant intellectual breakthroughs in geography.