Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Environmental Sciences Program"
Science Service, Up Close: Covering the Atom, August 1945
- Date: August 6, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Details of Helen Miles Davis and Science Service coverage of the atomic bomb.
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Perspectives
- Date: February 8, 2010
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Science Service, Up Close: Idiosyncratic Discoveries
- Date: March 10, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A look at Viola Anderson and her letter to Science Service.
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Par for the Course
- Date: July 18, 2011
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,
Science Service, Up Close: Hallie Jenkins, On the Road, On Her Own Terms
- Date: March 16, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In January 1926, Science Service took a chance on smart, plucky Hallie Jenkins, hiring the 27-year-old as their sales representative. During the following months, Jenkins traveled on her own throughout the Midwest, selling science to newspapers large and small. By the end of the year, she become the organization’s sales and advertising manager.
Science Service, Up Close: Save the Redwoods
- Date: May 21, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Science Service: Up Close - Pictures from the Bolling Memorial Redwood Grove, Humboldt County, California.
Science Service, Up Close: Making Do
- Date: June 4, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Science Service: Up Close - Looking at the "defense fashions" for female workers during World War II.
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Science Service, Up Close: Tips for Writers – Running Starts and Clean Plates
- Date: February 19, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: As the Director of Science Service, chemist Edwin Emery Slosson not only edited the submissions of his staff and external contributors but he also dispensed writing tips that remain timely today.
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Science Service, Up Close: Before DNA Made Them Famous - Crick, Wilkins, and Watson
- Date: February 27, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391843,size=300,center]By the 1960s, Science Service had been acquiring photographs of scientists, obscure as well as famous, for over four decades. Portraits of Edison or Einstein were always in demand, but experience had also shown that bright, accomplished young people might someday be awarded a major prize or make a discovery deemed
Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds
- Date: April 7, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.
There Are Prizes . . . and There Are Winners
- Date: March 6, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Nobel prizes are not the only rewards for work improving public health and making the world a better place.
Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 2 - Adventurers
- Date: August 20, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.