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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.

Starfish and other echinoderms are extremely important to the biodiversity of our oceans. (Image: Comstock Images/Stockbyte/Thinkstock)
Smithsonian Science Education Center

All About Starfish

September 6th, 2017, 10:09AM
/ BY Courtney Fernandez Petty
Niuam (Comanche) fan with sun and Morning Star designs (detail), ca. 1880. Oklahoma. 2/1617. (Credit: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian)
National Museum of the American Indian

American Indian beliefs about the eclipse

August 21st, 2017, 11:00AM
/ BY
The swearing in of Wilma Mankiller as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Charlie Soap holds the Bible; the others are unidentified. Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Foundation.
National Museum of the American Indian

Just doing "what I could," Wilma Mankiller changed Native America

August 11th, 2017, 12:00PM
/ BY
The Q'eswachaka Bridge has been rebuilt continuously since the time of the Inkas. (Doug McMains, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian)
National Museum of the American Indian

Q’eswachaka, the Last Inka Suspension Bridge

August 4th, 2017, 8:13PM
/ BY Allie Plata
The 2016 Arctic sea ice summertime minimum, reached on Sept. 10, is 911,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average minimum sea ice extent, shown here as a gold line (NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio/C. Starr).
National Museum of Natural History

Can Science Help Policymakers Create the Arctic Policies We Need Right Now?

August 3rd, 2017, 12:42PM
/ BY &
From left to right: Zack “Doc” Battiest, Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, and Spencer Battiest in the music video
National Museum of the American Indian

Musician Spencer Battiest talks heritage, motivation, and Standing Rock ahead of museum concerts

August 1st, 2017, 8:45PM
/ BY
A new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will dive deep into the Arctic world of narwhals to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem unique and important. “Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend” will present Inuit perspectives on their relationship with narwhals and the latest scientific knowledge about these animals, while illuminating the interconnectedness among narwhals, people and their ecosystems (Smithsonian Institution).
National Museum of Natural History

Narwhals, Narwhals, Swimming in the...Smithsonian?

July 31st, 2017, 3:12PM
/ BY
Michelle Tovar during her LMSP fellowship in 2015, viewing the Dolores Huerta exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Latino Center

Michelle Tovar Works to Incorporate Local Narratives in the Telling of Bracero Program History

July 8th, 2017, 1:20PM
/ BY
Native artists sharing experiences and their thoughts on design and inspiration. From left: Fashion and textile historian Regan Loggans, fashion designer Patricia Michaels, fashion designer Niio Perkins, fashion designer and multimedia artist Loren Aragon, artist and apparel designer Jared Yazzie, fashion model Jade Willoughby, and editorial hair stylist Amy Farid.
National Museum of the American Indian

Makers + Mentors: Hands-on with leaders of Native fashion

June 16th, 2017, 8:55AM
/ BY
Ginkgo biloba leaves could be the key to reconstructing past changes in carbon dioxide and climate (Rich Barclay, Smithsonian).
National Museum of Natural History

Can You Help Us Clear The Fossil Air?

June 8th, 2017, 3:04PM
/ BY &