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      Smithsonian Scientists at Work

      • Date: April 20, 2017
      • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==75408]Scientific research has been integral to the Smithsonian, from its founding to today. The Smithsonian's founder, Englishman James Smithson, saw in the U.S. (according to his biographer, Heather Ewing) "a place of the future" that could support "science and progress for humanity." He believed that scientists were "citizens of the world" and that the

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      SIA Acc. 16-205, National Museum of African Art (U.S.), Website Records, 2013-2016

      • Date: 2013 2013-2016
      • Creator: National Museum of African Art
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    5. Mary Rice standing in front of a laboratory building at the Smithsonian Marine State at Fort Pierce.

      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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      Mary E. Rice

      • Date: December 10, 2019
      • Description: Mary E. RiceSmithsonian Institution Archives Oral History Collection, SIA009622The Smithsonian’s Division of Worms welcomed Dr. Mary E. Rice (1926-2021) to the invertebrate zoology team in 1966. As she pioneered her way through her education and career, Rice seized every opportunity that came her way.

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      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2018

      • Date: May 22, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marsha E. Sitnik

      • Date: June 1, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      SIA Acc. 22-122, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2019-2020

      • Date: 2019 2019-2020
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    15. Observations taken from 9 p.m. August 3th to 2 a.m. August 9, 1872 in Holt County, Missouri, of an aurora. Detailed, timed observations on a single sized document in purple ink.

      The Increase and Diffusion of Data

      • Date: October 19, 2021
      • Description: Research has been at the core of Smithsonian’s mission from the beginning, and sharing that research—through activities like publishing papers and data—is still key to fulfilling that mission for the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.”

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      Smithsonian Women in Science

      • Date: September 17, 2019
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn how we’re creating a better record of women in science at the Smithsonian.

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      SIA Acc. 14-040, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2012-2013

      • Date: 2012 2012-2013
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Link Love: 4/14/2017

      • Date: April 14, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Breathing new life into medieval manuscripts at Bodelain Library. [via Adam Koszary/Medium]Over 600 new rights-free videos and other media showing embryos, robots, and bouncing water droplets! [via Wikimedia Open Access Report]The Smithsonian is gathering thought leaders in environmental and species conservation on Earth Day for their 1st Earth Optimism Summit, and our own Pam

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      SIA Acc. 17-165, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2014-2015

      • Date: 2014 2014-2015
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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