Results for "S. Dillon Ripley Center (Smithsonian Institution)"
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Effie Kapsalis
- Date: December 20, 2022
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Digital strategist Effie Kapsalis was dedicated to building bridges between Smithsonian collections and audiences. In a Smithsonian career spanning nearly twenty years, Effie mobilized her colleagues to share more diverse stories, break down barriers to access, and fight for gender and racial equity in the cultural heritage sphere. Sadly, we lost Effie on December 11, 2022.
The Impossible Case of Harrison G. Dyar
- Date: May 12, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Starting tomorrow through next week, we will be digging into the life of entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929). Dyar was honorary custodian of the Smithsonian's United States National Museum's collection of Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, etc.) for more than thirty years. As a scientist, Dyar was noted for his work concerning mosquito-borne diseases. He also developed a
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Wish You Were Here?
- Date: December 1, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_3071" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Spiral Galaxy Messier 81 (M81), 2003, Spitzer Space Telescope / IRAC, NASA / JPL-Caltech / S. Willner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA"][/caption] You may in fact be, or just feel like, a big shot down here on earth. But, ever since airborne cameras started to photograph our little planet from above, and once they
Lightning Fast Legislation for the National Museum of the American Indian
- Date: November 29, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Twenty-nine years ago yesterday the National Museum of the American Indian Act was signed and the Museum of the American Indian became part of the Smithsonian family.
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A New Look at Home Movies
- Date: May 31, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="I have no hours in the day to watch TV/games. Don't let life go by!!, by National Media Museum, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] From 2002-2005, a unique archive of video tapes was compiled by the Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) at UCLA, with the goal of studying a relatively new social
Remembering the Work of Claudine K. Brown
- Date: March 23, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: In a 1991 issue of the Prophet, the Smithsonian African American Association’s newsletter, Claudine Kinard Brown called on staff to support Black museums across the country.
A Legend in Termite Field Biology
- Date: March 2, 2021
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.
Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees
- Date: August 4, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.
Is there a place for paleography in archives?
- Date: January 23, 2018
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: As we digitize the Archives’ collections to make them available online, I am constantly being exposed to handwriting from the past two centuries. As a result, I have a deeper appreciatiation of how many different things influence the way a person’s writing appears on the page, things beyond the quality of their penmanship. Writing on the deck of a ship, on horseback or on
Link Love: 12/28/2018
- Date: December 28, 2018
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Facility Marks 10 Years
- Date: December 12, 2013
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: NASM’s Udvar-Hazy facility celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Link Love: 3/29/2019
- Date: March 29, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.