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Smithsonian Voices

The Smithsonian Institution has hundreds of scholars, researchers and curators, each with an amazing story to tell about their work, their quests and their passions. Here is a sampling of the unique voices that make up the chorus of ideas at the Institution.

This view of Gemini VII from VI-A in December 1965 shows the spacecraft’s orbital configuration.
National Air and Space Museum

Gemini VIII’s Near-Disaster

April 12th, 2021, 9:44AM
/ BY
Vera Rubin and Kent Ford (white hat) setting up their image tube spectrograph at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. (Photo: THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE)
National Air and Space Museum

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory and Women of Chilean Astronomy

April 12th, 2021, 9:32AM
/ BY Samantha Thompson
The Perseverance captured this image of itself and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter days before its maiden flight. (NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ ASU/ MSSS/ Seán Doran)
National Air and Space Museum

The Wright Moment: Ingenuity Prepares for Flight

April 9th, 2021, 5:15PM
/ BY Michael Persaud
Clavelina puertosecensis, a species of tunicate, taken by Shih Wei, a student of the Tunicates course at the Bocas del Toro Research Station, in Panama. Experts teach courses and create instructional videos on how to collect, preserve and observe marine invertebrate groups. (Credit: STRI)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Like A Cooking Show With Worms: Smithsonian Videos Teach Tropical Taxonomy of Diverse Marine Creatures

April 9th, 2021, 10:00AM
/ BY
Example of a new meeting background in use, featuring the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. (Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Celebrate National Library Week with Virtual Meeting Backgrounds

April 9th, 2021, 9:37AM
/ BY
National Museum of American History

How Do the Arts Promote Social Change?

April 8th, 2021, 2:45PM
/ BY
The National Museum of Natural History’s 146 million objects and specimens are studied by researchers worldwide who are looking to understand all aspects of the natural world. (Chip Clark, Smithsonian)
National Museum of Natural History

How Museum Collections Advance Knowledge of Human Health

April 7th, 2021, 6:00AM
/ BY
Elizabeth Acevedo (Photo by Jonathan B. Tucker)
Smithsonian Center For Folklife & Cultural Heritage

How Poet Elizabeth Acevedo Brings Sacred Monsters to Life

April 6th, 2021, 12:00PM
/ BY Monique-Marie Cummings
This leaf-tailed gecko hatchling receives his medication from a syringe, which he laps up with his impressive tongue.
National Zoo

How Do You Give Medicine to Zoo Animals?

April 6th, 2021, 10:55AM
/ BY
Eating canned food in space. (NASA)
National Air and Space Museum

I’ll have the Veal! Preservation with a Can-Do Attitude

April 5th, 2021, 4:29PM
/ BY Lauren Anne Horelick, Deborah Duerbeck Parr, and Daniel Ravizza