Arizona State Museum to honor local Indian communities

The Arizona State Museum will host a reception to publicly thank the heads of three local American Indian communities for their assistance in helping preserve ASM's remarkable pottery collection. Terry Enos, chairman of the Ak-Chin Indian Community, Richard Narcia, governor of the Gila River Indian Community, and Joni Ramos, president of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, will be honored at the event.

Combined tribal support capped the museum's two-year, $2.5 million fund-raising effort and will help match a $700,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The contribution is particularly significant in that it well help preserve the material culture collections of each Indian community as well as those of indigenous peoples across the region.

"We are pleased to partner with the city of Tucson and Arizona State Museum," said Ramos. "We've made this commitment because the preservation of our past allows us to preserve our culture for the future."

UA professor to chair women's international travel conference

Sandra Rosenbloom, professor and director of the Drachman Institute at the UA, had been appointed by the National Academy of Sciences to chair an international conference on women's travel issues.

The conference is sponsored by NAS, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the British Department of Transport.

Rosenbloom was also re-appointed by the National Research Council to a congressionally-mandated National Research Council committee that provides guidance on the multi-million dollar research program run by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration.

She also was appointed by the Transportation Research Board to a joint National Cooperative Highway Research and National Cooperative Transit Research Programs Panel overseeing the preparation of the third "Commuting in America" study.

The study has direct importance to officials is state transportation departments and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation.