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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Freida Austin Johnson
- Date: February 3, 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.
Understanding growth in insects: Dyar’s Law revisited
- Date: March 21, 2017
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: How Smithsonian entomologist Harrison Dyar's field notes, now available on the Smithsonian Transcription Center, are improving present-day research done by Smithsonian Resident Research Associate Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay.
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Link Love: 3/13/2015
- Date: March 13, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
A Legend in Termite Field Biology
- Date: March 2, 2021
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.
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Are You Arty or Hearty?
- Date: May 19, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: “Are you arty or hearty?” As family legend has it, this hilarious question was asked of one of our family’s old friends upon his arrival at Jesus College, Oxford University in 1932 as a Rhodes Scholar. Well, as the story goes, it turns out that he was hearty and intellectually gifted (physics). And, the same can be said of lots of Smithsonian employees.
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Adventures of an Ecologist
- Date: January 7, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A Flickr Set from the field work of Helmut Buechner.
Link Love: 5/23/2014
- Date: May 23, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Carol Farrington Jopling
- Date: October 28, 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.
Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education
- Date: March 6, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science
Link Love: 2/15/2013
- Date: February 15, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: A weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amy Ballard
- Date: August 25, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Amy Ballard is a senior historic preservation specialist emerita with the Smithsonian’s Architectural History and Historic Preservation Office, where she worked between 1985 until her retirement in 2016. She was promoted to senior historic preservation specialist in 2010. Ballard has contributed to plans for new buildings, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the
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Once and For All, the Chicken or the Egg?
- Date: April 23, 2011
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.