Virginia Commonwealth University hires Transportation Safety Training Center team leader

By Mike Porter

Virginia Commonwealth University has named Lori G. Rice, Ph.D., to lead the university’s multi-disciplinary crash investigation team.

Rice serves as team leader and psychologist at the VCU Transportation Safety Training Center. 

Rice has been a psychological consultant in the Richmond area for the past 20 years. She has worked part time as a psychologist with the Transportation Safety Training Center since 1999 and has co-authored more than two dozen publications and papers focusing on a variety of traffic safety topics.

Rice received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Virginia Tech in 1977. She received a master’s degree in general and experimental psychology at VCU in 1979 and a Ph.D. in general and experimental psychology at VCU in 1981.

The Transportation Safety Training Center was formed in 1971 as a joint venture between the Virginia Highway Safety Division and VCU’s School of Community and Public Affairs. Today, the training center is a division of VCU's Center for Public Policy in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs.