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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jane Walsh

    • Date: July 4, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator Emeritus Dr. Jane Walsh, Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives, developed a specialty in pre-Columbian lapidary technology to better understand the technological advancements of ancient cultures. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Plexus Installation, by Gabriel Dawe

    Link Love: 11/25/2016

    • Date: November 25, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Thankful edition!Artist Gabriel Dawe makes rainbows. [via Bored Panda]Our Arts & Industries building, the 1st U.S. National Museum, amazes many who visit the National Mall. Learn more about it!Some key things you should know about American Indians from the director of our National Museum of the American Indian. [via Washington Post]Colombian singer Carlos Vives is donating one

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ann M. Seeger

    • Date: December 21, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Ann M. Seeger, curator emeritus, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, managed the chemistry and biological sciences collection, and is an expert in science education apparatus and balances and weights.v#Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Brandon Fortune

    • Date: May 2, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Brandon Fortune, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, organized the first two Outwin Boochever Portrait Competitions and researches women portraitists of the later nineteenth century. #Groundbreaker

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  9. Lego Paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History, 2014.

    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

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  11. Photo of fallen leaf art, by Saki Kitazumi

    Link Love: 12/16/2016

    • Date: December 16, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Japanese are taking fall to a new level! [via Bored Panda]The 25 most instagrammed museums includes the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery. [via Hyperallergic] Ireland's National Web Archive in Ireland let the public choose 10 websites to preserve. [via Info Docket]There's a podcast for everyone, including research librarians...check out the episode on Global Web Preservation.

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  13. Margaret Brown Klapthor, National Museum of American History

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Margaret Brown Klapthor

    • Date: June 29, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Margaret Brown Klapthor, National Museum of American History, was an expert on White House history, curated the Smithsonian’s First Ladies collection, and wrote several books on First Ladies history. #Groundbreaker

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  15. Official portrait of female astronaut in spacesuit standing next to two flags.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Kathryn Sullivan

    • Date: October 11, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Astronaut and earth scientist, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, was the 1st female American astronaut to spacewalk, and was named the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in 2017. #Groundbreaker

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  17. Eucosma ragonoti barnesiana Dyar, 1903, Collected by Harrison G. Dyar, National Museum of Natural History.

    The Impossible Case of Harrison G. Dyar

    • Date: May 12, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Starting tomorrow through next week, we will be digging into the life of entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929). Dyar was honorary custodian of the Smithsonian's United States National Museum's collection of Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, etc.) for more than thirty years. As a scientist, Dyar was noted for his work concerning mosquito-borne diseases. He also developed a

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Ashley Egan

    • Date: July 25, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Research botanist Dr. Ashley Egan, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, works with the museum's 86,000 legume specimens to understand the processes and patterns that have formed biodiversity throughout the course of evolution. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Dorothy Moss

    • Date: March 7, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator of painting & sculpture, Dr. Dorothy Moss, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, directs the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, and curates the museum’s first-ever performance art series, IDENTIFY. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Mireya Loza

    • Date: December 13, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Mireya Loza, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, researches labor history and her 1st book, "Defiant Braceros", won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's Theodore Saloutos Book Award.

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