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21 Sep 2020, 12:54 pm
The responses differ by institution: The Kennedy Center has canceled most performances through the end of 2020. [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 12:50 pm
Avi Loeb is the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, among other positions. [read post]
26 Aug 2020, 1:01 am
Laddie Boy’s likeness, made from the copper in the pennies, still stands in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 11:20 am
Image courtesy of Division of Political and Military History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. [read post]
19 Jul 2020, 1:38 pm
A 2014 study, conducted by scientists from the Smithsonian Institution and the Fish and Wildlife Service, estimated that between 365 million and 988 million birds are killed in the United States every year as a result of building collisions. [read post]
18 Jul 2020, 4:57 pm
., here).Pix Credit Smithsonian HEREIt becomes even more interesting in light of Benny Tai Yiu-ting's (戴耀廷) recent essay circulating in Hong Kong that seeks to predict the trajectory of events from now until Hong Kong is effectively transformed, and with it the international order (for which Hong Kong served as a sort of nodal point--the proverbial canary in the mine)… [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 4:00 pm
The Smithsonian Institution, the largest museum complex in the world, has yet to announce their plans for re-opening during the COVID-19 pandemic. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 1:01 am
James Weldon Johnson. 1943 Oil Painting by Laura Wheeler Waring.National Portrait Gallery/ Smithsonian Institution As his biography at poets.org explains: [It was] the story of a musician who rejects his black roots for a life of material comfort in the white world. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 1:00 am
Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and George Mason University’s Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) invite you to a panel and discussion. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 2:40 pm
Universities and institutions are inviting the public to share their experiences during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 12:00 am
[Wearing improvised masks in public will help defeat the viral invasion] Fast reduction of the COVID-19 pandemic is necessary for public health, re-opening the American economy, restoration of rights and liberties, and prevention of large second or third waves. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 1:01 am
The mask was to be used as the face of a Sioux warrior to be displayed in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. [read post]
13 Mar 2020, 2:28 pm
He served as a director of the Smithsonian Institution and as a trustee of the Ochsner Medical Institution. [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 7:23 pm
The launch of a new open access platform ushers in a new era of accessibility for the Institution – “Culture connoisseurs, rejoice: The Smithsonian Institution is inviting the world to engage with its vast repository of resources like never before. [read post]
8 Mar 2020, 11:27 am
Andrea Galassi According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, beavers, the largest rodents in North America, are “one of the few species that significantly modify their environment. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 6:00 am
” Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain — The Institution this week announced the launch of a new open access platform that brings part of its vast collection—”data and material from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo”—online, and in high-resolution. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 4:46 pm
Smithsonian Magazine – “Culture connoisseurs, rejoice: The Smithsonian Institution is inviting the world to engage with its vast repository of resources like never before. [read post]
15 Feb 2020, 10:06 am
The New York Times has a fascinating story today about the insistence by the Smithsonian Institution that the director of the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York be dismissed because of highly debatable allegations of conflicts of interest relative to the purchase of her wedding dress and then the venue of her wedding. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 3:04 am
"The choice for removing the overpaint was carefully weighed out, and it was fully supported by all involved," the institute said. [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 7:20 am
It was unknown to the scholarly community and would have likely remained so were it not for the unearthing, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of lists of Malay books and manuscripts purchased by the American missionary, Alfred North, for the United States Exploring Expedition. [read post]
