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Smithsonian's 2012 American Ingenuity Award Winners

Meet the nine winners, recognized for their groundbreaking achievements in science, technology, art and scholarship

Jack Andraka, the Teen Prodigy of Pancreatic Cancer

A high school sophomore won the youth achievement Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for inventing a new method to detect a lethal cancer

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Touring New York's Most Dynamic Neighborhoods

How do you know when a neighborhood has truly arrived? T+L looks for the telltale signs in three NYC neighborhoods: TriBeCa, Harlem, and Williamsburg.
June 24, 2013 | By Kate Betts

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Musician, Producer & Director
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Apollo 11 Astronaut
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Director of Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

New York University Neuroscientist, Biomedical Engineer & Entrepreneur
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Solar Astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Director of the National Museum of Natural History
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

NASA Earth Scientist
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Ocean Explorer
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Materials Scientist & Engineer, Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Mathematician, Computer Scientist & President of Harvey Mudd College
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals at National Museum of Natural History
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Nobel Laureate and Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Chief Veterinarian at the National Zoo
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
May 20, 2013 | By Smithsonian Magazine's "Future Is Here" Conference

A new book from best-selling author Jared Diamond tells us how we can learn a lot from people who live like most of us did 11,000 years ago
December 26, 2012 | By Amy Crawford

The Brazilian government’s bold efforts to clean up the city’s notoriously dangerous favelas is giving hope to people who live there
January 2013 | By Joshua Hammer

Sebastian Thrun, winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for education takes is redefining the modern classroom
December 2012 | By Tom Vanderbilt

Bryan Stevenson, the winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in social justice, has taken his fight all the way to the Supreme Court
December 2012 | By Chris Hedges

Local politics take a dramatic turn in southern California over a plan to clean up an iconic American playground
November 2012 | By Claire Martin

Photographer Zed Nelson traveled the world documenting how body improvement has practically become a new religion
October 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

A relic from the Cold War, this instrument of death gets a new life … and a new look
October 15, 2012 | By Lisa Bramen

Is the mooncake just going through a phase or are these new variations on the Chinese treat here to stay?
October 02, 2012 | By Mike Ives

Salman Khan, a rising star in the education world, has a vision for a new kind of classroom
October 01, 2012 | By Megan Gambino

The Nobel Peace Prize winner talks about the secret weapon in her decades of struggle—the power of Buddhism
September 2012 | By Joshua Hammer

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