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  1. Portrait of African American woman with head resting in hand in front of colorful abstract art.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Rhea Combs

    • Date: November 29, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: As head of the Center for African American Media Arts, National Museum of African American History and Culture, curator Dr. Rhea Combs leads effort to collect, preserve, and make accessible an extensive collection of films, photographs, and recordings documenting African American history. #Groundbreaker

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    Fishes and Frogs and Birds, OH MY!

    • Date: May 26, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="Cruriraja cadenati, 6 Oct 1959, Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, USNM 196443. "][/caption] The Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, just launched nearly 2 million records on the Smithsonian Collections Search Center related to their vertebrate

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Cari Corrigan

    • Date: February 15, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Watch Dr. Corrigan give a tour of the meteorite collections. Geologist & Curator of Antarctic Meteorites, Dr. Cari Corrigan, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, studies meteorites from the Moon, Mars and asteroids to understand how the Solar System formed and how the impact cratering process affects these planetary materials. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janine Brown

    • Date: February 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Congratulations to Janine Brown for receiving the Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award to examine, "Using serum inflammatory markers to investigate the immune response to elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus."

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    Women in Science Wednesday: Wikipedia Edition, Part 1!

    • Date: March 9, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Herpetologist Doris Mabel Cochran and caleopterist Doris Holmes Blake now have Wikipedia pages thanks to our volunteers. Join us Saturday, March 19th, to help write more women into history! Learn how Wikipedia volunteers are helping to write notable women into history.

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  11. Primate and tiger cub photographed during the National Geographic Society-Smith

    Cocktails, Cubs, & Costinika

    • Date: September 27, 2012
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A slideshow of images from the Field Book Project.

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  13. Botanist Mary Agnes Chase was and expert in grasses, as well as a suffragette.

    Vote Women in Science

    • Date: August 11, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It is that scrappy time of year where we ask you to nominate your favorite Smithsonian collection, experience, or in the Archives' case, people. We typcially refer to them as groundbreakers. We have some stiff competition in the science category with the Hope Diamond and the 3D Lincoln Life Mask, however, we feel Smithsonian female scientists have made such a significant

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    "Woman's Work"

    • Date: March 13, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In June, 2008, the Smithsonian was the 4th institution to join the Flickr Commons . One of the things I enjoy most as a visitor to the Commons is searching on a random word or phrase and seeing how that idea is represented. Six members of the Commons posted photos and tagged with ‘womensday’ in honor of the 2009 International Women's Day. I searched on ‘work’ and other related

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  17. Reproductive physiologist, Dr. JoGayle Howard, Smithsonian National Zoo, dedicated her life to helping the reproduction of endangered species such as the black-footed ferret and clouded leopard. In 2010, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service gave Howard the prestigious award, “Recovery Champion.” #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. JoGayle Howard

    • Date: July 29, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In Memorium: Dr. JoGayle Howard died March 5, 2011 at age 59, in Washington, D.C. from malignant melanoma. Her legacy lives on in the survival of the species that she studied, including the black-footed ferret, giant panda, clouded leopard, cheetah, fishing cat, Florida panther and elephant. Reproductive physiologist, Dr. JoGayle Howard, Smithsonian National Zoo, dedicated her

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    We Welcome You!

    • Date: June 4, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It is the season of 90 degree days, the Folklife Festival, ice cream trucks, and the sound of the Smithsonian carousel playing its fun house music in the distance. As someone who has to commute to and from work by bicycle through the legions of tourist buses, crowds of umbrellas, and FBI paraphernalia, I try to replace my slight annoyance in being delayed by remembering that

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  21. A yellow-tinted catalog page showing two women in front of painted backgrounds, one of a nature scene, one of a shipdeck with a ship on water in the background.

    Link Love: 7/20/2018

    • Date: July 20, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Old school filters. [via Smithsonian Libraries]Progress is being made to find the burned remnants of the last slave ship to reach U.S. soil. [via National Geographic]Meet the Library of Congress reference librarian who helps people research their African American genealogy. [via LOC]You can help transcribe the papers of Civil Rights figure, Julian Bond, with the University of

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    Link Love: 2/5/2010

    • Date: February 5, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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