Smithsonian Institution

Type: Organization

Name: Smithsonian Institution

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Barcoding project aims to protect endangered species

Google, famous for their internet search engine, has made a US$3 million Global Impact Award to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC for a project on endangered species. South Africa is one of six countries selected as partners in the project. ... [Published Green Times South Africa - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Endangered Species, DNA, Species, Global Impact, Smithsonian Institution

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Smithsonian exhibit coming to the sanctuary

Nicole Grulke - News Staff Writer , The Alpena NewsSave | Post a comment |ALPENA - The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Heritage Center will be hosting a Smithsonian exhibition titled "Journey Stories" from June 1 through July 26. This exhibit ... [Published Alpena News - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Immigration, Transportation, Bay National Corp

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Australian National University

Prize for essay on Indigenous remains return

Martin Thomas (left) on location in West Arnhem Land (ANU)An academic's essay about the return of Indigenous remains taken from Arnhem Land decades ago has won a prestigious competition.An essay tracing an academic's involvement in the return of Indigenous ... [Published Special Broadcasting Service - May 20 2013]

Entities: Martin Thomas, Smithsonian Institution, Australian National University, Research Fellow

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Works Progress Administration

Excavating Native American history

Last week we attended the opening of a new exhibit at the Catalina Island Museum in Avalon. The subject of the exhibit is a "Dr." Ralph Glidden, an uneducated digger who called himself an archeologist and excavated hundreds of Native American burial sites ... [Published San Jose Mercury News - May 20 2013]

Entities: SKELETON, Works Progress Administration, Smithsonian Institution, Mexico, Los Angeles

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

National Museum of the American Indian

Plank by plank, infamous cabin gets a new home

EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. ? The floors creaked. The walls swayed in a strong breeze. Rot and termites had destroyed parts of the rickety structure built before the Civil War.But when curators from the Smithsonian's new African-American history museum in Washington ... [Published Bend Bulletin - May 19 2013]

Entities: African-Americans, Slavery, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Smithsonian Institution

Sea Butterfly Photos Show Stunning Underwater Biodiversity

We're consistently impressed by the variety of biodiversity out there, but these sea butterflies are really something else. The creatures, also known as pteropods , were photographed by Karen Osborn, a research zoologist with the Smithsonian Institution. ... [Published The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - May 19 2013]

Entities: Biodiversity, Smithsonian Institution, Snail

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

PHOTOS: Amazing Sea Butterflies

We're consistently impressed by the variety of biodiversity out there, but these sea butterflies are really something else.The creatures, also known as pteropods, were photographed by Karen Osborn, a research zoologist with the Smithsonian Institution. ... [Published Huffington Post - May 19 2013]

Entities: Acidity, Barrage Fire, Calcium Carbonate, Smithsonian Institution

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Smartphones can make for smart gardening

Need help in the garden? There are lots of apps for that. I’m just amazed by all the applications out there for Smartphones. I think it’s up to a gazillion now. Ranging in price from free on up, it’s a smorgasbord of choices that will keep you busy for ... [Published Wichita Falls Times Record News - May 18 2013]

Entities: Smartphone, Cattle, Android, Modern Technology Corporation, Smithsonian Institution

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Smithsonian collection includes PHCC archives

The PHCC’s national auxiliary recently gave some of its archives to the Smithsonian Institution for the American history museum’s collection on the role of women in business. ... [Published SNIPS Magazine - May 17 2013]

Entities: Smithsonian Institution

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Furniture restorers hold annual convention in Topeka

Speaker from Smithsonian Institution gave keynote Dave Macfee, who owns Macfee Refinishing, 127 N.W. Van Buren, hosted the Professional Refinisher’s Group conference. The group meets yearly in various cities around the country, but this was its first ... [Published Topeka Capital-Journal - May 16 2013]

Entities: Topeka (Kansas, United States), Smithsonian Institution, Don Williams

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Thirty expert speakers in final Open Culture programme

The final programme for the Collections Trust‎’s flagship OpenCulture 2013 conference is published this week, featuring more than 30 expert international and UK speakers. More than 200 registrations have already been received for the event, this year ... [Published M&H Online - May 16 2013]

Entities: Smithsonian Institution, Steven Zucker, Bill Thompson

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 3 reports

Smithsonian to preserve South Carolina slave cabin

A slave cabin on Edisto Island in coastal South Carolina will be preserved by the Smithsonian Institution.Click to Continue » ... [Published Kentucky.com - May 14 2013]

Entities: Smithsonian Institution

Quotes

"That way," he said, "the Italians could look at this and say if it wasn't for us, this couldn't have happened."

'New Frontier' exhibit opens at Gilcrease after return from Italy venue [Published Individual.com - 7 hours ago]

"We're very excited to be able to bring this exhibit to Alpena," Gandulla said. "We were lucky to get one of the grants to bring this nation-wide traveling Smithsonian exhibition to the sanctuary."

Smithsonian exhibit coming to the sanctuary [Published Alpena News - 16 hours ago]

1901: Herzl dictates the résumé "for the special benefit of the weak understanding of His Imperial Majesty of the Khalifate."

This Day, May 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin [Published Cleveland Jewish news - 18 hours ago]

"I just don't know. They could ship me back something and say it was him. I wouldn't even really know whether it was him or not. Sheriff (Randall) Aliff told me he was almost positive it was him, but I can't be positive until some tests and things."

Murder in a rural county: Part 2 of 2 [Published Individual.com - May 20 2013]

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Rejection and Its Discontents [Published Chronicle of Higher Education - 17 hours ago]
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Hot Hot Dance, Experimental Film and the T [Published Los Angeles Downtown News Online - May 20 2013]
Prize for essay on Indigenous remains return [Published Special Broadcasting Service - May 20 2013]
Murder in a rural county [Published Fayette Tribune - May 20 2013]
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Excavating Native American history [Published San Jose Mercury News - May 20 2013]
Woody Guthrie’s great American voice gets a new... [Published Wichita Eagle - May 19 2013]
After 17 years in wait, cicadas are rising: U.S... [Published Japan Times - May 19 2013]
Plank by plank, infamous cabin gets a new home [Published Bend Bulletin - May 19 2013]
PHOTOS: Amazing Sea Butterflies [Published Huffington Post - May 19 2013]
Sea Butterfly Photos Show Stunning Underwater B... [Published The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - May 19 2013]
New Discoveries in Fossils that Refute Darwinis... [Published Health Impact News - May 18 2013]
Smartphones can make for smart gardening [Published Wichita Falls Times Record News - May 18 2013]
The continuing controversy over history's first... [Published Dvice.com - May 17 2013]
Grizzly Bear Researcher Retiring [Published Epoch Times - May 17 2013]
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MSUM graduate credits teachers with boost to ac... [Published Fargo Forum - May 17 2013]
Smithsonian collection includes PHCC archives [Published SNIPS Magazine - May 17 2013]

Blogs

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Apollo 17 astronaut visits WUSTL for week of ev... [Published WUSTL Science & Technology News - May 16 2013] NASA Schmitt, shown here in his official NASA photograph taken in 1971, will visit Washington University in St. Louis the week of May 20 to participate in a round of activities having to do with lunar exploration. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, a ...
University of Florida embraces Internet2′s 100-... [Published GigaOM - May 08 2013] Universities have been pioneer participants in developing and using the internet since its inception. Now, the consortium of education and research institutions known as Internet2 has reached another milestone, with the announcement that the University ...
University of Florida embraces Internet2′s 100-... [Published GigaOM - May 08 2013] Universities have been pioneer participants in developing and using the internet since its inception. Now, the consortium of education and research institutions known as Internet2 has reached another milestone, with the announcement that the University ...
University of Florida embraces Internet2′s 100-... [Published GigaOM Network - May 08 2013] Universities have been pioneer participants in developing and using the internet since its inception. Now, the consortium of education and research institutions known as Internet2 has reached another milestone, with the announcement that the University ...
Starving Virginia settlers turned to cannibalis... [Published EquityJungle - v0.1 - May 01 2013] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Settlers at Virginia's Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl, the U.S. Smithsonian Institution reported on Wednesday. A recent excavation ...

Audio/Video

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"Hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell" [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - Apr 24 2013]
CARTA:Bipedalism and Human Origins--Matthew Toc... [Published UC Television - YouTube - Feb 14 2013]

Press Releases

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Smithsonian Secretary, Georgetown University Pr... [Published CisionWire - English - Apr 16 2013]
IMAX Launches Institutional Upgrade Initiative;... [Published PR Newswire: Consumer Technology - Jan 15 2013]