Adina Boyce, whose bachelor's degree is in civil engineering, is a first-year graduate student in CCNY's transportation-engineering program. For the past three years, Adina has been actively involved in research initiatives at CCNY and other leading institutions, including the University of California-Berkeley. She has presented at international and regional conferences and has received awards for her work. Adina’s research interests focus on transportation planning, operations and infrastructure, pavement design, and clean-fuel technology. In support of her master’s thesis, Adina will be conducting research this summer in Brazil on the impacts of biofuel usage on the transportation infrastructure. She plans to conduct a case study in East Harlem to model specific impacts of alternative fuel usage on improving air quality, and she hopes the findings may provide an avenue for lowering the high incidence of asthma for the local Black community.