Results for "Research"
Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education
- Date: March 6, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science
Scientific Sweethearts: Research Couples in the Archives
- Date: February 11, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: A look at the life and work of husband and wife Smithsonian scientists researching in the field.
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: October 9, 2014
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
- Blog Post
Research at the Archives: Finding Grasses for the South
- Date: May 26, 2011
- Description: As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History, I’ve spent months in the Smithsonian Institution Archives researching a book tentatively titled, Not Naturally a Grass Country: Environment, Plant Genetics, and the Quest for Agricultural Modernization in the Humid World. It’s largely a story about global attempts to replace one form of agriculture—the
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University of Panama, and Ira Rubinoff, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute"
- Authority Record/EAC
Smithsonian tropical research institute
- Date: 1966
- SI History Chronology
Environmental Research Center Closes
- Date: November 22, 1986
- Collection
Research Records, 2011-2018
- Date: 2011 2011-2018
- Creator: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- SI History Chronology
STRI Receives Grant for Research
- Date: October 13, 1993
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Research Records, 1998-2019
- Date: 1998 1998-2019
- Creator: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- SI History Chronology
Shark Research Panel Initiated
- Date: 1958
- SI History Chronology
Conservation & Research Center Established
- Date: June 22, 1975