Results for "Smithsonian Resident Associate Program. Young Associates Program. Discovery Theater"
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Mara Mayor
- Date: November 10, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janet W. Solinger
- Date: October 31, 2018
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Janet W. Solinger, Director of the Smithsonian Resident Associates Program, 1972-1992, helped expand the Smithsonian's continuing education program membership tenfold. In 1993, she served as Director of Special Projects, assisting with planning for the Smithsonian's 150th anniversary. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jacqueline Hicks Grazette
- Date: June 24, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Design in Archives: 150 going on 175
- Date: August 29, 2019
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: 2022 will mark the Smithsonian's 175th Anniversary. In honor of that, we're taking a look at what some of the design work went into making the Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary celebration happen.
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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]
Design + Archives: Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: February 21, 2017
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Celebrating 50 years in 2017, the Anacostia Community Museum opened on September 15, 1967.
Turn up the Volume - The Electric Guitar
- Date: March 5, 2019
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In November of 1996, the electric guitar, its history and its makers, were the focus of attention at the National Museum of American History.
Happy 100th Birthday, S. Dillon Ripley
- Date: September 20, 2013
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Celebrate the life of the eighth Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, who was born on September 20, 1913, 100 years ago today!
Crimilda Pontes: The Original Designer of the Smithsonian Sunburst
- Date: March 24, 2020
- Description: A celebration of the woman who originally designed the iconic Smithsonian sunburst.
Transcription Beyond Description: Engaging Opportunities and Weaving Webs of Knowledge
- Date: June 11, 2013
- Description: From crowdsourcing transcription to building Wikipedia articles, opportunities abound to weave webs of knowledge with SIA collections.
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Publicity, Politics, and Physics
- Date: March 10, 2010
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major. Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult. Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum. Its people and discoveries coexisted with
Introducing the Science Media Group YouTube Playlist
- Date: June 29, 2021
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.