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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amy Henderson

    • Date: September 5, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Amy Henderson, Curator Emerita at the National Portrait Gallery, studies the lively arts and celebrity culture; writing books and exhibits on Elvis Presley, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Graham, and pioneers in early broadcasting. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Portrait of Kimberly Arcand holding astrophysical model

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kimberly Arcand

    • Date: January 4, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In honor of the 2016 Smithsonian Education Award recipient, Kimberly Arcand. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory visualization lead, Kimberly Arcand, makes astrophysics more accessible with coding programs for girls and boys using NASA data, and cutting-edge Chandra data visualization projects such as data-based 3D printed supernova remnants. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Rachel Page

    • Date: March 1, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Congratulations to Rachel Page for receiving the Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award to examine, "Tracking and manipulating cooperative relationships in vampire bats." Congratulations to Rachel Page for receiving the Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award to examine, "Tracking and manipulating cooperative relationships in vampire bats."

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Pam Wintle

    • Date: March 29, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: One of the 1st female moving image archivists in the U.S., Pam Wintle, founded the Human Studies Film Archives (now the National Anthropological Film Collection) in 1981 which contains over 5,000 hours of moving images spanning most of the 20th century. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Deborah Stokes

    • Date: January 3, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Betty Strickler

    • Date: April 22, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Liza Kirwin

    • Date: June 28, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Deputy Director Liza Kirwin, Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, has written several books based on treasures discovered in AAA's artist papers, from illustrated to-do lists to love letters. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Nora Atkinson

    • Date: August 8, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator of Craft Nora Atkinson, Smithsonian American Art Museum, researches the role of the handmade in modern culture and was responsible for bringing the large scale art of Burning Man to the nation's capital for the first time. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jessie Cohen

    • Date: March 21, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Photographer, Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian's National Zoo, worked for nearly 30 years patiently and sensitively photographing the animals while also managing the Zoo's photo collection which consists of thousands of images, from glass plate negatives to digital. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Lori Yarrish

    • Date: May 16, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Director Lori Yarrish, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, led the museum during its 50th year to adopt a community-driven model increasing collaboration with D.C. Public Schools on issues such as sustainability and healthy eating. #Groundbreaker

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  21. Astronaut and earth scientist, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, was the 1st female American astronaut to spacewalk, and was named the 2017 Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Dorn

    • Date: October 4, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Ellen Dorn (right), former Director of Exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building, worked on several large scale traveling exhibits including “America’s Smithsonian,” for the Smithsonian's 150th and "Smithsonian's America" which traveled to Japan. #Groundbreaker

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  23. A woman wearing gloves holds up a pair of boots. A man in the background is near a shelf of objects.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jennifer Locke Jones

    • Date: April 1, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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