Dr. Karen Philbrick has been hired as MTI’s new Research Director. She has been overlapping duties this month with Trixie Johnson, who will retire April 30 after nine years with MTI. Karen comes to us from the University of Denver, where she was assistant director with the National Center for Intermodal Transportation. She earned her Ed.M. in counseling psychology from Columbia University and her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Denver.