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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.

Chapter three begins with an image of a black walnut branch and its hanging flowers.
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Designing for Humboldt: Five Questions with Karen Siatras

April 23rd, 2020, 3:00PM
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Frederic Edwin Church, “Study for “The Heart of the Andes,”” 1858, oil on canvas, 10 1/4 x 18 1/4 in., Olana State Historic Site, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, OL.1981.47.A.B.
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

A Brush with Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and Frederic Church

April 22nd, 2020, 3:47PM
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Female Guam kingfisher Giha at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. Guam kingfishers are extinct in the wild, but scientists are working to change that by breeding the species for release in the near future.
National Zoo

Some Egg-citing News and a Few Love Bites

April 22nd, 2020, 9:17AM
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Mangroves line a channel connecting the Belize River to the coastal lagoon system. These trees are hundreds of years old and provide important habitat to both terrestrial and marine species. (Steve Canty, Smithsonian Marine Station)
National Museum of Natural History

Together, We Can Save the Mangroves

April 22nd, 2020, 6:00AM
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A Malayan tiger like this one was diagnosed with COVID-19 at the Bronx Zoo.
Smithsonian Science Education Center

How Does a Disease Transfer from an Animal to a Human and Back?

April 21st, 2020, 4:05PM
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A female Guam kingfisher at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2012.
National Zoo

Guam Kingfishers: A Truly Rare Breed

April 21st, 2020, 11:05AM
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Jessie A. Walker,
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Animals in Art and At Home

April 21st, 2020, 10:00AM
/ BY Amy Fox
Scientists from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (including Nick Pyenson, left) and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute collect a fossil dolphin from the Caribbean coast of Panama. The fossil is encased in a white plaster jacket, and recovered as the tide rushed in. © Aaron O'Dea / Smithsonian Institution
Conservation Commons

Digging Into the Past to Find Optimism for the Future

April 20th, 2020, 2:27PM
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Gather your supplies for flower exploration and natural dye lab. All photos by Gloria Kenyon.
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Flower Exploration and Natural Dye Lab

April 20th, 2020, 10:26AM
/ BY Gloria Kenyon
Ceramic olla purchased from Soledad Lala (Soboba Luiseño), Riverside, California, for the collections of the Museum of the American Indian, with a sketch by the collector, E. H. Davis. Olla: NMAI 7/1952. Drawing: Expedition Sketch Book, No. 2, November 1917. Edward H. Davis Papers, Huntington Free Library Collection 9166, Cornell University Library (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian; sketch courtesy of the Cornell University Library)
National Museum of the American Indian

Spotlight on Collections: Reuniting Objects and Expedition Field Notes

April 18th, 2020, 8:30PM
/ BY Maria Galban