April 



April y 



■ Award Smithsonian magazine won che 1997 National 

 Magazine Award in the category of "Special Interests." 

 The award was presented for a three-part series on inver- 

 tebrates by Richard Conniff, which ran in the February, 

 May, and July issues in 1996. The National Magazine 

 Awards program is sponsored by the American Society of 

 Magazine Editors, and administered by the Graduate 

 School of Journalism of Columbia University. Established 

 in 1966 to honor editorial excellence, the program this year 

 drew 1,183 entries from 281 different magazines. 



April-May 



■ Public Program The Smithsonian Associates 

 presented a four-part course commemorating Jackie 

 Robinson breaking major league baseball's color barrier 

 in 1947. Sports writers, former players, and historians 

 discussed Robinson's impact on the game and on the 

 emerging civil righcs movement. 



April I 



■ Publication The Center for Museum Studies and the 

 American Association of Museums published the 

 proceedings from the September 1996 symposium 

 "Museums for the New Millennium." 



April 3-6 



■ Outreach At the National Science Teachers Associ- 

 ation's annual convention in New Orleans, the National 

 Science Resources Center exhibited its programs, con- 

 ducted presentations, and gave workshops on its Science 

 and Technology for Children curriculum. 



April 4-5 



■ Primate Intelligence Symposium "Exploring the Primate 

 Mind," held at the National Zoo, featured five eminent 

 scholars, Frans de Waal, Sue Savage-Rum baugh, Tetsuro 

 Matsuzawa, Sally Boysen, and William McGrew, plus the 

 Zoo's Benjamin Beck and Rob Shumaker, speaking on 

 various topics related to primate cognition and intelli- 

 gence. The Zoo's orangutan language acquisition project 

 was a special focus of the meeting. 



April 4 



■ Dedication The Tropical Research Institute dedicated 

 its Barro Colorado Island Visitors Center to Martin H. 

 Moynihan for his contributions to tropical biology. 



■ Public Program The National Portrait Gallery 

 presented Cultures in Motion: "The Berlin Legacy." 

 Irving Berlin's daughtet, Mary Ellin Barrett, and 

 granddaughter, Mary Ellin Lerner, remembered the life 

 and songs of the great American composer. 



April 10 



■ Training Developed an Institution-wide forum, 

 known as the Smithsonian Learning Community, for 

 discussing and exchanging ideas about organizational 

 development and change, innovation, and management 

 tools and techniques. This year's sessions included four 

 nationally known guest speakers. 



April 14-October iy 



■ Exhibit In celebration of the 50th anniversary of 

 Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn 

 Dodgers on April 15, 1947, the National Museum of 

 American History presented "Jackie Robinson and the 

 Integration of Major League Baseball," an exhibit explor- 

 ing Robinson's career and its historical significance. 



April 15 



■ Development Project The American Indian Museum 

 Studies program at the Center for Museum Studies created 

 the American Indian Museum Development Award Pro- 

 gram. The first recipient is the People's Center of the Con- 

 federated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Pablo, MT The 

 year-long program provides consultations, expert assis- 

 tance, information, staff training, and development. 



April 15 



■ Publication The Office of Public Affairs issued the 

 fourth in its seties of Institution-wide "Resources" 

 brochures, "Asian Pacific American Resources at the 

 Smithsonian." The "Resources" brochures encourage 

 readers to participate in and partake of cultural ac- 

 tivities, as well as research, employment, internship, 

 and fellowship opportunities at the Smithsonian. 



April 16-August iy 



■ Exhibition The National Museum of African Art 

 presented the exhibition "Adire: Resist-Dyed Cloths of 

 the Yoruba," a collection of newly acquired adire cloths 

 from Nigeria. 



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