Results for "Smithsonian Science (Blog)"
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: Stuff Matters
- Date: September 3, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Science Service photographs, while having good identifying information, can still be helped by the cybercommunity to fill in some of the mission information.
Women in Science Wednesday: Briana Pobiner
- Date: November 19, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Paleoanthropologist, Briana Pobner, studies the evolution of human carnivores and is leading a National Science Foundation project to provide teachers with better materials that use human examples to teach evolution in AP high school biology classes. #Groundbreaker
American Women of Science Symposium Sessions Available Online
- Date: December 1, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: You can watch the 2020 Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative symposium on the past and future of women in science any time.
Women in Science Wednesday: Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby
- Date: January 1, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
Women in Science Wednesday: Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance
- Date: December 25, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
Women in Science Wednesday: Marion Winifred Sheahan, R.N.
- Date: November 20, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
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.
Science Service, Up Close: Covering Eclipses, Near and Far
- Date: August 15, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations.
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Women in Science
- Date: March 14, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: You can participate in our second Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the goal of increasing the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia!
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: White House Science Advisors, from Roosevelt to Nixon
- Date: May 11, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: May 11 is the anniversary of establishment of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). That 1976 legislation further ratified the influence of scientists on national policy, positioning them to provide ready advice to the President.
Science Service, Up Close: Watson Comes Home
- Date: October 6, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: After successfully completing his 1925 European business trip, 29-year-old Watson Davis headed home on the S.S. Republic, boarding at Cherbourg, France, on October 2. The science journalist had covered the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and discussed with Sir Richard Gregory (Editor of the journal Nature) the plausibility of
Women in Science Wednesday: Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D.
- Date: October 23, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.