Results for "Science"
Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Melissa K. McCormick
- Date: April 15, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Melissa K. McCormick, Plant Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, studies the interaction between plants and soil microbes. She uses genomics to understand endangered orchids. #Groundbreaker
Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Sunshine A. Van Bael
- Date: June 10, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Community Ecologist Dr. Sunshine A. Van Bael, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies how plants co-opt other organisms to aid in their own defense and, to what extent sustainable land-use practices support biodiversity conservation. #Groundbreaker
Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Christine Jones Forman
- Date: March 4, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Obervatory’s Senior Astrophysicist, Dr. Christine Jones Forman, is attempting to measure how large scale structures in the Universe grow from early times to the present through the Chandra Xray Oberservatory. She is the Smithsonian’s Director of the Consortium for Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe. #Groundbreaker
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Women in Science Wednesday: Wikipedia Edition, Part 4!
- Date: March 30, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Mary Agnes Chase now has a Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers. Mary Agnes Chase now has a Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers.
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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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Women in Science Wednesday: Wikipedia Edition, Part 2!
- Date: March 16, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Reproductive biologist Janine Brown now has Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers. Join us Saturday, March 19th, to help write more women into history! Reproductive biologist Janine Brown now has Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers.
Science Service, Up Close: Technology and Political Conventions
- Date: July 19, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In a Presidential election year, political news coverage can sometimes seem almost too instantaneous and continuous. Thanks to smartphones with cameras and microphones, journalists and citizens can relay images and sound from almost anywhere inside campaign activities. There was a time, however, when live broadcasting from political conventions and rallies was novel.Starting
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Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse
- Date: January 24, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.
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From the Science Service Collection: Dr. John Thomas, Jr.
- Date: February 22, 2018
- Creator: Matt Peterson
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_392292,size=800,center]Dr. John Thomas, Jr., M.D. was a renowned clinician, epidemiologist, and research scholar who taught at Meharry Medical College for more than half century. When this photograph was made, he had just been appointed Research Collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he was engaged in a study of the precursors of
Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard
- Date: July 1, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Staff Scientist Emirata, Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies why some organisms live in societies & is noted for arguing that phenotypic & developmental plasticity play a key role in sharing animal evolution. #Groundbreaker
Women in Science Wednesday: Dorothy Annie Elizabeth ("Daisy") Garrod
- Date: August 7, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
Women in Science Wednesday: Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen
- Date: March 26, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis