SRI Foundation Research Fellow Scholarship Awarded

The SRI Foundation is pleased to announce that two Ph.D. candidates have been awarded $10,000 Research Scholarships. Ms. Amber N. Wiley of George Washington University and Mr. Kojun U. Sunseri of University of California, Santa Cruz are the recipients of our second annual scholarship award.

Award Announcement

Continuing Professional Education

New National Highway Institute Course on Historic Preservation
The SRI Foundation is co-teaching a new National Highway Institute (NHI) course, entitled “Beyond Compliance: Historic Preservation in Transportation Project Development” (Course Number 142049). This course, developed by SRI Foundation, AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc., and the University of Maryland, is designed to help transportation, NEPA, and historic preservation professionals meet the requirements of Section 106 regulations and take advantage of the flexibility and autonomy offered in the regulations. The course focuses on the fundamentals of NEPA, Section 106, and Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act, and provides techniques for coordinating transportation planning, project development and compliance with these three laws. The course emphasizes practical approaches for real-world situations and the importance of balancing stewardship and project delivery. Information on this course is available at:

http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/coursedesc.asp?coursenum=1221

Passport in Time (PIT) is a volunteer program of the USDA Forest Service. PIT volunteers work with professional Forest Service archaeologists and historians on a wide range of projects, including archaeological surveys and excavations, recording and restoring rock art, archival research, historic structure restoration, gathering of oral histories, and analysis and curation of archaeological artifacts. These projects take place within National Forests throughout the country. In 2005, the SRI Foundation entered into a cooperative agreement with the Forest Service to host the PIT Clearinghouse. The Foundation’s services include advertising projects that are open to volunteers, processing volunteer applications, providing resources to the PIT project leaders, and maintaining the PIT Program databases.

In the later half of 2006 we plan to expand this extremely popular volunteer program and give other federal and state agencies the opportunity to have their projects advertised through the PIT Clearinghouse. Agencies wishing to host a project that uses volunteers will be able, for a fee, to avail themselves of the services of the PIT Clearinghouse and advertise their projects on the PIT web page.

If you are interested in learning more about Passport in Time or want to volunteer on a PIT project, please visit the PIT web page at www.passportintime.com. Agencies interested in hosting a PIT project can contact Beth Chambers, Volunteer Services Coordinator for PIT, at

Environmental Stewardship and Streamlining: Fact or Fiction, Transportation Research Board 2005 Summer Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Conference Proceedings – Environmental Stewardship and Streamlining: Fact or Fiction

A Workshop on Updating Guidance for Management of Cold War-Era Properties on Military Installations, Tucson, Arizona, February 2006

SRI Foundation Preservation Research Series 5 (1.6 MB PDF)

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