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The Global Co Lab Network and Smithsonian Conservation Commons partnered to create the Eco Teen Action Network to empower teens locally and globally to address the United Nations Sustainable Development goals and Earth Optimism.

Smithsonian Science

Meet The Eco Teens Who Are Learning How To Save The Planet

A boy adds a wish for the health of delivery workers during the 2020 pandemic. This paper wish tree is inspired by artist Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree for Washington, on view at the Hirshhorn Museum’s Sculpture Garden.

Smithsonian Education

Using Museum Resources to Help Preserve Childhood in a Pandemic

The National Museum of Natural History’s newest curator in the paleobiology department, Dr. Stewart Edie, opens a drawer with mollusk fossils in the museum’s invertebrate paleobiology collection. (Katie Collins, National History Museum, London)

National Museum of Natural History

Say Hello to the Smithsonian’s Newest Mollusk Expert

Rachael Brenneman (left), Julia Smith (center), and Skye Austin (right) pose with supplies for their remote research projects. Photo: Amy Hruska

Smithsonian Science

Three Undergraduate Students Share Their Remote Research Experience

Tasi is a 4-year-old Guam rail and a marvel, considering that just a few decades ago his species nearly disappeared.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Meet Tasi, a Little Bird with a Big Purpose

Details from LEFT: Oscar Bluemner, Self-Portrait, 1933, oil on panel, 19 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Photography by Edward C. Robison III. RIGHT: Oscar Bluemner. Oscar Bluemner. Notes for self-portrait from painting diary, 1933. Oscar Blumner papers, 1886-1939. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Conversations Across Collections: Oscar Bluemner in Color

A student in Evansville, Wisconsin explores a 3D model of a 19th century life mask of President Abraham Lincoln from the National Portrait Gallery’s collections in his school’s computer lab. (Terry Medalen)

Smithsonian Education

The Smithsonian’s Evolving Role as the Nation’s Knowledge Partner

Image from Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition (Smithsonian Science Education Center)

Smithsonian Science Education Center

Travel the World and Learn About Nutritional Guidelines in "Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition"

Pandemic as Portal

Your IMPACT | Your Smithsonian

The New Normal

Alex Guarnaschelli talks about cooking with family connections in a live Smithsonian Associates program streaming Dec. 8 (Johnny Miller).

Smithsonian Associates

Cooking with Alex Guarnaschelli and 25 Other Smithsonian Associates Programs Streaming in December

woman’s robes (munisak) - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Gift of Guido Goldman, left: S2004.96; right: S2005.17.

Office of Academic Appointments and Internships

The Power of Color: Using Synthetic Dyes as a Dating Tool for Museum Textiles

Although pumpkins and other gourds have become staples at Thanksgiving, they were not the only original crops in the Americas. Other crops domesticated around the same time, like sumpweed, little barley and goosefoot, are now gone from today’s palates. (Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Our Thanksgiving Menu Has Lost a Few Crops

Percy Sandy (A:shiwi [Zuni], 1918–1974).

National Museum of the American Indian

Seven Native American Chefs Share Thanksgiving Recipes

In June 2020, a protest against racial injustice and police brutality made its way through the streets of Washington, D.C. Photographer Talia Hawley submitted this photo as part of the Anacostia Community Museum’s Moments of Resilience storytelling project. PHOTO Talia Hawley

Your IMPACT | Your Smithsonian

Healing A Nation

Yesmarie De La Flor answers your questions about what it’s like being a marine scientist in a National Museum of Natural History program streaming on Dec. 10. (Michelle Donahue, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Seven Free Natural History Programs Streaming in December

A bison on the Northern Great Plains.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

I Spent the Summer Studying a Herd of Bison, And Here’s What I Learned

The National Museum of Natural History’s entomology collection has many Asian giant hornets. Recently, the collection grew with new specimens from an eradicated nest in Washington State. (Matthew Buffington, USDA-ARS)

National Museum of Natural History

Family Members Follow Original Asian Giant Hornet to Smithsonian

The Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems working group combines expertise from paleontologists and ecologists to improve our understanding of ancient and modern ecosystems. (Mary Parrish, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Interdisciplinary Study Shows How Species Interactions Affect Evolution

Wayne Thiebaud,

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Happy Birthday Wayne Thiebaud!

The Hope Diamond came to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1958. Since then, museum scientists have uncovered a lot about the diamond’s intriguing past. (Dane A. Penland, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Get to Know the Hope Diamond’s Keeper

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