Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Environmental Sciences Program"
In the Name of Science
- Date: February 3, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: As some of you reading this know, we enjoy getting to know fascinating women in science throughout our collections and in the Smithsonian's history. We enjoy it so much that one of us decided we needed a set of LEGO women scientists. Over lunch, we assembled the the sets with some trepidation as it had been years since our previous LEGO adventures. We had fun playing and
An Operation of Its Own: Brigitte Blachere and Programming within the Smithsonian Associates
- Date: September 8, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: A collection of interviews from 2013 records the history of the Smithsonian Associates. One of recordings included Brigitte B. Blachere, the program manager of the organization. She detailed the youth and family programs she has developed for 23 years.
Women in Science Wednesday: Vicki Funk
- Date: July 22, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Senior Scientist Vicki Funk, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Department of Botany, directs the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program and specializes in the evolution and biogeography of plants of the South American highlands. #Groundbreaker
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2018
- Date: May 22, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch
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The Smithsonian’s First Garden
- Date: May 31, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,
Archiving Born-Digital Media from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Date: October 27, 2020
- Description: We’ve been processing audiovisual media collections from the Science Media Group division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
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See Here: 9/22/2010
- Date: September 22, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="Aerial view of the Rhode River and the site of the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies (CBCES), now known as the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), in Edgewater, Maryland, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 549 Box 2
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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.
Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century
- Date: October 24, 2019
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.
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Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science
- Date: June 12, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a
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Discoveries Don’t Happen in an Armchair
- Date: November 27, 2018
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: The 19th century was a transformative time for the natural sciences. New discoveries didn't just happen in an armchair. Scientists adventured into unfamiliar territory by land and sea on expeditions, and their new findings fed new theories. Groups like the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences formalized America's place
100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
- Date: January 6, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Geologist Dr. Ursula Marvin studied Moon rocks from the Apollo missions and meteorites in Antarctica. Throughout her career with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Marvin championed women in science. She delivered lectures about her own experiences as a woman in geology and participated in programing to help advance women's careers. She was likely inspired to support