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    1. Physicist Dr. Stella S.R. Offner, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, uses computer simulations to understand how stars form. She is also a WorldWide Telescope Ambassador.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Stella S.R. Offner

      • Date: June 24, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Physicist Dr. Stella S.R. Offner, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, uses computer simulations to understand how stars form. She is also a WorldWide Telescope Ambassador. #Groundbreaker

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    3. Portrait of Kimberly Arcand holding astrophysical model

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kimberly Arcand

      • Date: January 4, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In honor of the 2016 Smithsonian Education Award recipient, Kimberly Arcand. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory visualization lead, Kimberly Arcand, makes astrophysics more accessible with coding programs for girls and boys using NASA data, and cutting-edge Chandra data visualization projects such as data-based 3D printed supernova remnants. #Groundbreaker

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    5. An aerial view from the southwest of the Smithsonian Institution Building, 1993.

      Animals Behind the Castle: The Department of Living Animals

      • Date: July 18, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Before Congress created the National Zoo, the Smithsonian's Department of Living Animals kept it’s collection of animals behind the Castle.

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    7. Photographer Michael Barnes and his copy stand setup.

      Board of Regents: Providing Guidance to the Stewards of the National Collections

      • Date: September 8, 2016
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: With the help of digital volunteers, we will make over a century’s worth of Smithsonian Board of Regents Meeting Minutes searchable, via the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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      Documenting the Smithsonian’s Pandemic Response

      • Date: March 16, 2021
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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      Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’

      • Date: December 23, 2014
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Software tools are helping the Smithsonian find its early websites from the 1990s on the web.

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    13. 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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      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

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    17. Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Personal Equation Problem

      • Date: April 12, 2018
      • Description: The term “personal equation” came into use in the 19th century as scientists found that observers have inherent biases: some anticipate events, and some report events after they have occurred. Recognition of the problem led to a spate of personal equation instruments: some measured biases of this sort, and some reduced the effect of personal errors. Most of these

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      Smithsonian Volunteers: Thanks for the Time and Talent!

      • Date: April 6, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: In celebration of over a century of volunteer contributions at the Smithsonian, explore the work of some stellar volunteers from our collection.

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      Let us know what you think about the new Smithsonian Commons

      • Date: July 13, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_7367" align="aligncenter" width="417" caption="Slide from Mike Edson, the Smithsonian's head of Web and New Media Strategy, Slideshare presentation on the Smithsonian Commons."][/caption] Just recently, the Smithsonian released a prototype of the Smithsonian Commons—a new part of the digital plan at the Smithsonian that aims to stimulate “learning,

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    23. Keeping in Touch

      • Date: January 10, 2012
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: Frances Escherich commuting with Secretary Abbot through Rock Creek Park to the Smithsonian.

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