Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Research"
Open Minds Open Doors
- Date: March 15, 2012
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: The life and achievements of May (Mary) Gorslin Preston Slosson, one of the first women to receive a PhD.
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See Here: 4/13/2011
- Date: April 13, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="323" caption="From left to right: Herbert G. Deignan, Secretary Alexander Wetmore (seated), Jane Love, Samuel A. Arny, and Herbert Friedmann are looking at a tray of birds from the collection. Wetmore and Friedmann are holding birds from the tray in their hands, 1951, by Charles Eliot Perkins, Color photo, Smithsonian Institution
Tips and Lessons from the Opening of the Renwick Gallery
- Date: June 11, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: In the midst of Smithsonian's busy season, we’re providing tips for visitors through the lens of photographs from the opening of the Renwick Gallery in 1972.
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
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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Link Love: 6/11/2010
- Date: June 11, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Celebrate National Teacher's Day with Education Resources at the Archives
- Date: May 8, 2012
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: In honor of National Teacher's Day, the Archives shares some of its K-12 teaching resources and lesson plans.
How Many Birds Have You Seen Today?
- Date: January 5, 2012
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: The Christmas Bird Count was begun in 1900 by the Audubon Society. Many Smithsonian staff have participated in it in the decades since then.
The Day the Earth Did Not Stand Still
- Date: August 19, 2021
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Where were you when the central Virginia 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck?
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Where to Begin? Determining Founding Dates in ForestGEO’s Global Network of Research Plots
- Date: April 21, 2020
- Description: Behind the seemingly objective certitude of a date lies an argument about what counts.
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A Quirk, a Chase and the Power of a Crowd
- Date: March 13, 2014
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.
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Climbing to Historical Heights
- Date: July 20, 2010
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: While in graduate school, I read that museum professionals wear many hats in one day. This could not be truer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. [caption id="attachment_7424" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Climbing the Plank to the Top, May 27, 2010, by Lauren Dare, Digital photograph."][/caption] I’ve worn many hats working in the Institutional History Division