Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Environmental Sciences Program"
Women in Science Wednesday: June Etta Downey
- Date: August 14, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
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Women in Science Wednesday: Mary Alice McWhinnie
- Date: May 22, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
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Women in Science Wednesday: Irène Joliot-Curie
- Date: May 8, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
Women in Science Wednesday: Sarah Stauderman
- Date: November 25, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Director of Collections at the Hirshhorn, Sarah Stauderman, is a paper and a/v conservator who built the first time-based media preservation suite at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker
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See Here: 6/18/2010
- Date: June 18, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Janet Solinger, Director of the Resident Associates Program (RAP), outside the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), also known as the "Castle," 1983, by Nora Kengle, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: January 1983, Negative Number: 2002-32291."][/caption]
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Science Service, Up Close: Stuff Matters
- Date: September 3, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Science Service photographs, while having good identifying information, can still be helped by the cybercommunity to fill in some of the mission information.
Connecting the Oceans: 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal
- Date: August 14, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: 100 years ago in August of 1914, the Panama Canal opened to commercial shipping. Smithsonian scientists knew the canal would create major environmental changes and have spent the last 100 years documenting them.
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You're Going to Throw That Out? Now?
- Date: May 9, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Institutions devise all sorts of procedures to determine what kinds of documents to collect, and how to save and archive them. The Smithsonian Institution Archives, for example, advises and works with various museums, research institutes, and offices across the Smithsonian, on an ongoing basis, to determine and manage what will get archived for posterity. But in some
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Archives Puzzles: Smithsonian’s First Paid Employee
- Date: August 9, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
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Fame ... By Any Other Name
- Date: March 20, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.
Women in Science Wednesday: Briana Pobiner
- Date: November 19, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Paleoanthropologist, Briana Pobner, studies the evolution of human carnivores and is leading a National Science Foundation project to provide teachers with better materials that use human examples to teach evolution in AP high school biology classes. #Groundbreaker
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More Thoughts on the Art of Science
- Date: January 7, 2010
- Description: In the most recent issue of Ezra (Winter 2010, pg. 3), Cornell University’s quarterly magazine, there is a small feature about photographs by graduate student Heather Flores of fruit fly ovaries. These images won the NYSTEM Stem Cell Awareness Day Image Contest. Besides the fact that there is a contest devoted to images that demonstrate the visual beauty of stem cell science,