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    1. Dr. Mary Hagedorn, research scientist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, created the first genome repository for endangered coral species and has distributed this germplasm to frozen banks around the world. If necessary, these banks could one day help reseed our oceans. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mary Hagedorn

      • Date: November 12, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Mary Hagedorn, research scientist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, created the first genome repository for endangered coral species and has distributed this germplasm to frozen banks around the world. If necessary, these banks could one day help reseed our oceans. #Grounbreaker

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    3. Color photo of grey/brown bird specimen perched on branch.

      Link Love: 3/31/2017

      • Date: March 31, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: There are 145 collection items at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and their new Objects of Wonder exhibit looks at how scientists use these collections to further our understanding of the world! (via Buzzfeed)Get cozy while you research! Folger Shakespeare Library lends out handmade shawls to visitors. [via Atlas Obscura]Students from the College of

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    5. Bird observations recorded by Alexander Wetmore in Wisconsin, 1901.

      Alexander Wetmore: Observing the Making of a Scientist

      • Date: January 5, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: On National Bird Day, a look at the long and illustrious ornithology career of Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore.

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      #AskAnArchivist 2019: The Year of the GIF

      • Date: October 3, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: You asked. We answered. On October 2, 2019, five Archive staff members were excited and ready to answer questions on Twitter and Instagram for #AskAnArchivist Day.

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    9. Helen Miles Davis (left), Thomas Robert Henry (center) and Jane Stafford (right), 1942. Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-3802.

      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.

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    11. The Path Taken and the Role of Mentors

      • Date: November 15, 2012
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Oral history interviews sometimes reveal the central role that a mentor can play in the life of a young person, changing the road taken in that person’s life.

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      The Smithsonian and Latin America

      • Date: February 15, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9988,size=500,center]While many people view the Smithsonian as a complex of museums in Washington, DC, it began as and still is an international organization devoted to research and education. A look at the Smithsonian Global website reveals where Smithsonian staff can be found today.Since the Smithsonian’s founding in 1846, the Institution has

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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

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      Found in the Archives: The Trail of a Naturalist Pirate

      • Date: September 19, 2017
      • Creator: Jessica Lavin
      • Description: Barbeque. Doughboy. Free trade. Pumple-nose. Smugglers. Cortan. Crockadore. Chopsticks. William Dampier, the 17th century explorer turned privateer/pirate, is credited with introducing these words, and more than 1,000 others, into the English vernacular. He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe three times, and created the first detailed record of Australian Flora

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