Julia Ross

Julia Ross is a writer, editor and communications specialist with the Smithsonian’s Office of Advancement.

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SCBI Interns by Tree

Wide Horizons

Gardeners in the Flight Garden

Gardens Take Flight

In Slavery's Wake Exhibition Photo

Legacies of Resilience

Panda chewing bamboo

Smithsonian Welcomes Two Pandas

Panda

A Texas Tradition

Amazon Fish

Fishes of the Amazon

Exoplanet

Life on Exoplanets

Space Suit Digitization

A 3D Space Suit

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A Contemporary Look at Asian Art

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Air, Land and Sea: New Tools for Resilience

Prince's Guitar

On With The Show

Grace Young

Conserving Food Cultures

Los científicos ciudadanos

Woodlawn House: Un Nuevo Capítulo

citizen scientists

Woodlawn House: A New Chapter

A prairie warbler greets the spring in New Jersey. PHOTO Cameron Darnell

Deciphering the Mysteries of Migratory Birds

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

Healing A Nation

Smithsonian Education

Diverse Voices, New Narratives: Education at the Smithsonian

IwamotoScott, Voussoir Cloud, SCIArc Gallery (Los Angeles, California, 2008). PHOTO Judson Terry. In IwamotoScott Architecture's 2008 installation Voussoir Cloud, heavy wood blocks become translucent petals depending on the changing light of day. The firm won the 2019 National Design Award for Interior Design.

Design Minds

Thirteen “Because of Her Story” interns spent the summer uncovering stories of remarkable American women and learning museum practice. Pictured: Stella Hendricks, intern, National Portrait Gallery. (Michael Barnes)

“Because of Her Story” Interns Look to Historical Role Models

Thirteen “Because of Her Story” interns spent the summer uncovering stories of remarkable American women and learning museum practice. Pictured: Stella Hendricks, intern, National Portrait Gallery. (Michael Barnes)

“Because of Her Story” Interns Look to Historical Role Models

Firooz Zahedi, Ellen DeGeneres, 1997. Gift of Time magazine, National Portrait Gallery (NPG.99.TC23.1) ©Firooz Zahedi

LGBTQ Women Who Made History

(Dino Morrow Photography)

Hawai'i’s Women Canoe Carvers

Effie Kapsalis is the Senior Digital Program Officer for the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.

A Conversation with Effie Kapsalis

Participants at a 1971 whale biology conference. Sheila Minor is pictured in the second row, center left. Photo via @mycandacejean

Uncovering Hidden Stories

Ariana Curtis

Ariana Curtis: Museums and the Everyday Woman

Gail Anderson

Gail Anderson: A Lifetime in Design

Constance Stuart Larrabee (left) and friend photographing among Ndebele women, near Pretoria, South Africa, 1936. All photos used in this story are courtesy Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Photographing Africa: A Woman’s View