Description: While the economy may be perking up, the recession we’re still climbing out of has made one thing clear; if you need to earn a living, you’ve got to think entrepreneurially. Read enough success stories about former executives who’ve become cupcake moguls and a path becomes clear: take the dreams and skills you have, along with whatever compelling back story you can point to
Description: Icthyologist and Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Dr. Carole Baldwin, has publised over 5 dozen scientific articles and discovered new species of fishes in several tropical locations. #Groundbreaker
Description: Biological anthropologist Dr. Habiba Chirchir, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, researches the evolution of human and non-human primate bone density patterns to ascertain whether there are unique patterns of trabecular bone density among closely related species. #Groundbreaker
Description: The Smithsonian’s first paid female scientist and full-time curator, Mary Jane Rathbun, spent her life’s work on the classification of decapod Crustacea (shrimps, crabs and their near relatives) and wrote a 4-volume series on the crabs of America. #Groundbreaker
Description: Anthropologist & educator Dr. Johnnetta Cole was director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art from 2009–2017, and the only person to have served as president of two historically Black colleges for women in the U.S., Spelman and Bennett. #Groundbreaker
Description: Carte-de-visite of James Law (1838-1921), first veterinary professor at an American university, by Purdy & Frear, SIA RU000095, Image No. 83-12516.
Description: Cyanotype, Camp F.L. Guenther, U.S. Coast Artillery at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 13763.
Description: Frank Hamilton Cushing, ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, demonstrates horse riding technique of a Dakota warrior, SIA Acc. 11-006, USNM No. 8349.
Description: "Information Age: People, Information and Technology" exhibition at National Museum of American History, October 1990, by Rick Vargas, SIA Acc. 11-009, 90-14532-03A.
Description: As National Museum of African American History and Culture opens, let’s look at the first efforts to establish a National African American Museum.
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