The eighth annual Preservation in Your Community event was held July 31 at Lee H. Nelson Hall, Natchitoches, La.

NCPTT’s Cultural Diversity Intern, Candida D’Avanzo, is studying African American burial traditions in the Cane River region.

NCPTT interns presented their summer research during the Preservation in Your Community program on July 31.

NCPTT is developing better strategies for the removal of graffiti from brick masonry buildings.

Molly McGath, NCPTT summer intern, is studying interactions between air pollution and limestone treated with commonly used chemical stone strengtheners.

Stace Miller, a longtime undergraduate intern at NCPTT, received a B.S. in chemistry and an B.S. in Math from Northwestern State University of Louisiana on May 9.

NCPTT will host four interns in its materials research program this summer: Molly McGath, Catherine Arseneaux, Candida D’Avanzo, and Paige Isaacs.

NCPTT interns Stace Miller and Bilal Khurshid were acknowledged for their research and professional presentations at NSU’s Annual College of Science and Technology banquet.

Six NCPTT staff members presented at Northwestern State University of Louisiana’s (NSU) annual research day on March 20.

NCPTT has been granted a cultural diversity intern for summer 2008 through the NPS Cultural Resources Diversity Internship Program.

NCPTT is now advertising its 2008 summer internship opportunities in architecture and engineering, archeology and collections, heritage education, historic landscapes and materials conservation.

NCPTT is set to host seven interns in the Summer of 2007.

NCPTT Student interns, Stace Miller and Ifrah Jamil, represented the Center at the Northwestern State University of Louisiana Annual Research Day on Wed., April 11, 2007.

On Aug. 3, NCPTT hosted “Preservation in Your Community,” a public event held annually to showcase preservation research and activities being undertaken by local National Park Service organizations.