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March 



■ Exhibition The National Postal Museum sends the travel- 

 ing exhibit "Posted Aboard RMS Titanic" to Melbourne, 

 Australia, as part of March 1999 international philatelic 

 event, "Melbourne 99." 



March 



■ Program milestone The 6.5-meter glass primary mirror for 

 the MMT telescope at the Fred L. Whipple Observatory on 

 Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, is installed in its holder. 



March 



■ Public program OGC in conjuncrion with the American 

 Law Association-American Bar Association hosted the an- 

 nual seminar in Chicago (Legal Problems in Museum 

 Administration Conference). 



March 



■ Research grant The Smithsonian American Art Museum 

 signed an inter-agency agreement with the National Endow- 

 ment for the Arts that will provide 8430,000 over the next 

 two years for the museum to digitize 50,000 slides of works 

 by 5,000 artists who received grants from the Arts Endow- 

 ment's Visual Artists Fellowship Program from 1967 to 

 1995. The NEA Artists Archives will be hosted on the mu- 

 seum's Web site as part of its on-line study center. 



Jaques Admiralty Law Firm of Detroit, Michigan, the Imag- 

 ing Center is headed by the Information Sysrems Division 

 and overseen by the Preservation Services Department. 



March 1 1 



■ Public program "NCIIA Exhibition" sponsored by the Na- 

 tional Museum of American History's Lemelson Center. An 

 exposition of inventions by college students from around the 

 country. The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators 

 Alliance Exposition will feature the most innovative and 

 commercially promising prototypes of new inventions cre- 

 ated by 12 teams of college students. 



March 1 1 



■ Public program TIME magazine correspondent Ann 

 Blackman lectured on her book, Seasons of Her Life: A Biogra- 

 phy of Madeleine Korbel Albright, at the National Portrait 

 Gallery. 



March 1 3 



■ Exhibition SITES opened the exhibition "To Honor and 

 Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions" from the National 

 Museum of the American Indian and Michigan State Uni- 

 versity Museum. The exhibition celebrates quilting within 

 diverse American Indian and Native Hawaiian communities 

 and pays tribute to the arrists who have expressed their cul- 

 tural heritage through these spectacular textiles. 



March 



■ Workshop Organized by the Association of Vietnamese 

 Folklorists and the Institute of Musicology and sponsored by 

 the Center for Folklife and Culrural Heritage, this work- 

 shop, first in a series, taught researchers about audio 

 documentation of the traditional music of the Kinh (Viet) 

 majority and of several ethnic minorities. 



March 1 



■ Public program World-renowned scientist Richard 

 Dawkins came to the Smithsonian from Oxford University 

 to reflect on the most compelling topics in science today in a 

 program produced by the The Smithsonian Associates. 



March 2 



■ Imaging Center opens The Smithsonian Libraries opened a 

 digital Imaging Center where Libraries' staff produce digital 

 editions of rare books, which are published on-line and avail- 

 able worldwide on the Internet while safeguarding the 

 Smithsonian Libraries' collection for future generations by 

 reducing the amount of handling of fragile materials. The 

 Imaging Center is a production unit where printed materials 

 are scanned, casting images and text from paper-based mate- 

 rials into a digital format. With start-up funding from the 

 Smithsonian's Atherton Seidell Endowment Fund and the 



March 18 



■ Donation Three puppets from the play "Lewis Latimer: 

 Renaissance Man" will become part of the National Museum 

 of American History's Division of Culrural History Collec- 

 tion. They were featured in a play presented by the Lemelson 

 Center. 



March 18 



■ Lecture Scientist Stephen Jay Gould lectured for The 

 Smithsonian Associates on why he believes the science-reli- 

 gion conflict is false. 



March 19-Ju!y 4 



■ Traveling exhibition "Teddy Roosevelt: Icon of the Ameri- 

 can Century," an exhibition co-organized by the National 

 Portrait Gallery and the National Park Service, U.S. Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, was on view at Federal Hall National 

 Historic Site, New York City. 



March 19-]uly25 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian American Art Museum's 

 Renwick Gallery hosted two spring exhibitions. "Dominic 

 Di Mare: A Retrospective" featured the delicate but power- 

 ful fiber sculptures by this California artist. The Renwick 



