Results for "Science Service"
Playing Against Type: Women, Science, and Stereotypes
- Date: April 8, 2014
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Even enlightened publications and workplaces can succumb to the fallback position of choosing stereotyped images of female scientists.
“Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth
- Date: May 7, 2020
- Description: Throughout his twenty-five years as a Science Service journalist, Frank Thone maintained an active correspondence with fellow scientists and conservationists. His letters in the Smithsonian Institution Archives both preserve his wit and offer a glimpse at the informal networking that helped shape how Americans perceived the natural world. One of Thone’s correspondents was a
Improve #WomenInSTEM Representation with Wikidata!
- Date: July 18, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: We're ready to take our women in science to the next level! I hope botanist Mary Agnes Chase would be proud.This journey started with our history of science and the media research fellow, Marcel LaFollette, who created basic records for female scientists she uncovered in the Archives' Science Service collection, including many who worked at the Smithsonian. We then created a
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Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford
- Date: March 11, 2014
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.
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Digitized Photos and Back Stories
- Date: October 22, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.
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Help Us ID These Mystery Women and Scientists
- Date: March 9, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Science Conversations in the Shenandoah
- Date: September 6, 2018
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In February 1975, twenty Smithsonian scientists gathered at the National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia to talk about their research and the future of science at the Smithsonian.
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Merging Chemistry and Nutrition: Pauline Gracia Beery Mack
- Date: March 17, 2011
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="284" caption="Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974), by Underwood & Underwood, Date unknown, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, SIA Acc. 90-105 (SIA-SIA2008-5750)."][/caption] For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be
The Life Behind the Smile
- Date: December 1, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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The Inhabitants of "Defense Mansion"
- Date: July 14, 2011
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: This post is the second in a series this month that honors the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial, held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925, and highlights a set of rare and newly digitized photographs, from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of witnesses at the trial collections, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. In tone, composition, and setting,
Audiences Solving Mysteries of Women in Science
- Date: December 3, 2013
- Description: Recent discoveries about our Women in Science demonstrate the ways our audiences are helping us add more stories to our collections.
Celebrating National Radio Day
- Date: August 18, 2022
- Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.