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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marie-Hélène Sachet

    • Date: June 26, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Marie-Hélène Sachet joined the Smithsonian in 1966 as a special advisor in tropical botany at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. When the program ended in 1968, she was transferred to the Department of Botany, where she remained, eventually serving as a curator in the division, until her death in 1986. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Dr. Anna J. Phillips, Research Zoologist, National Museum of Natural History, focuses on the systematics, evolution, and host associations of two parasitic worms: leeches and tapeworms. She has conducted fieldwork on 6 of the 7 continents. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Anna J. Phillips

    • Date: November 4, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Anna J. Phillips, Research Zoologist, National Museum of Natural History, focuses on the systematics, evolution, and host associations of two parasitic worms: leeches and tapeworms. She has conducted fieldwork on 6 of the 7 continents. #Groundbreaker

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  5. National Museum of Natural History paleontologist, Dr. Anna K. Behrensmeyer, reconstructs and compares land ecosystems through time to explore how ecology has helped to shape land vertebrate evolution and community structure throughout the Phanerozoic. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Anna K. Behrensmeyer

    • Date: February 3, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: National Museum of Natural History paleontologist, Dr. Anna K. Behrensmeyer, reconstructs and compares land ecosystems through time to explore how ecology has helped to shape land vertebrate evolution and community structure throughout the Phanerozoic. #Groundbreaker

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  7. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jacqueline Hicks Grazette

    • Date: June 24, 2020
    • 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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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anna R. Cohn

    • Date: April 3, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Anna R. Cohn, Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), 1988–2014, toured groundbreaking exhibitions across the United States. She joined the Smithsonian in 1983 as director of the international exhibition “The Precious Legacy” and later organized “Generations” for the S. Dillon Ripley Center’s International Gallery. #Groundbreaker

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  11. Brown boxes taped closed. The boxes are stacked on top of each other and are full and appear damaged. Some boxes are leaning. Four white boxes stuffed with papers are under a stack of brown boxes.

    Link Love: 2/8/2019

    • Date: February 8, 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.

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  13. Making Plaster Mold of Body of Sulphur-Bottom Whale, 1903, lantern slide.

    A Whale of a Tale

    • Date: November 13, 2014
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: In honor of the 163rd anniversary of the publishing of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, here’s a whale themed slideshow.

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  15. Link Love: 02/26/2021

    • Date: February 26, 2021
    • 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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  17. Astrophysicist Dr. Andrea K. Dupree , and Kepler teammate, Ron Gilliland, obtained the first image of the surface of a star. She recently led a team that discovered fast hot winds from very young stars, which could profoundly affect their evolution and the environment of surrounding planets. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Andrea K. Dupree

    • Date: January 14, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Astrophysicist Dr. Andrea K. Dupree, and Kepler teammate, Ron Gilliland, obtained the first image of the surface of a star. She recently led a team that discovered fast hot winds from very young stars, which could profoundly affect their evolution and the environment of surrounding planets. #Groundbreaker

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  19. Close-up photograph of Peggy A. Loar.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Peggy A. Loar

    • Date: April 14, 2021
    • 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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    For It's One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out...

    • Date: July 17, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="This is America...Keep it Free!, Dorothea Lange, 1942, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] More cameras in more places. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the installation of red light cameras and the controversy surrounding their use that’s continuing to spread

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  23. Faust holds her hands clasped in front of her. She is not smiling at the camera.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Maria A. Faust

    • Date: May 11, 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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