National Museum of American History exhibit, fea- 

 tured dynamic artwork done by students from the 

 Washington, D.C., area depicting Edward Kennedy 

 "Duke" Ellington during his career. Ellington's life and 

 career was also celebrated in art, poetry, and musical 

 performances. 



April 2J-29 



■ Presentation In Stockholm, Sweden, National Science 

 Resources Center Executive Director Douglas Lapp and 

 Deputy Director Sally Goetz Shuler made presentations 

 on science education reform and inquiry-centered 

 science teaching to members of the Royal Swedish 

 Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of 

 Engineering Sciences, and Swedish corporate and 

 government leaders. They also visited the city of 

 Linkoping, where they met with city and school offi- 

 cials and university scientists who were interested in 

 piloting adaptations of science units from the NSRC's 

 Science and Technology for Children curriculum. 



April 30 



■ Research The balloon-borne Far Infrared 

 Spectrometer 2 (FIRS-2), designed and built at SAO, 

 made its 10th successful probe of the Earth's strato- 

 sphere and, during a 5-hour flight over Alaska, meas- 

 ured high-altitude gases vital to understanding 

 atmospheric photochemistry, especially those processes 

 linked to ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect. 



May 



■ Publication Reading Records: A Researcher's Guide to the 

 Archives of American Art by Garnett McCoy, Curator 

 Emeritus, was published. The monograph is a marvel- 

 ous introduction to the variety of documentation in the 

 Archives' collections, including letters, diaries, account 

 books, and rare catalogs of obscure exhibitions so dear 

 to researchers and other serious students of American 



May 



■ Exhibition The National Air and Space Museum 

 opened 'Space Race,' a major exhibition that traces fifty 

 years of international competition and, more recently, 

 cooperation between the United States and the former 

 Soviet Union. The exhibition was curated by the mem- 

 bers of the Space History Division and designed and ex- 



ecuted by the Exhibits Division. It contains a stunning 

 and unique array of artifacts, including a Soviet Merkur 

 spacecraft, a full-scale mock-up of the Hubble Space 

 Telescope, and a camera identical to those used in the 

 first U.S. reconnaissance satellites. 



May, July 



■ Research Series Thirty-one Rio Grande basin stu- 

 dents, scholars, educators, and community scholars par- 

 ticipated in a Folklife Field Research Series. The Center 

 for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies Latino Cul- 

 tural Resources Network initiated the series to engage 

 people in the region in the fieldwork for the Folklife 

 Festival and to offer a training program for the research 

 and production of public folklife programs in general. 



May 



■ Exhibition For the International Gallery exhibirion 

 American Voices: Latino Photographers in the United States. 

 the Office of Exhibits Centtal worked with an outside 

 registrar and outside designers, oversaw design and 

 fabrication contracts, edited and produced graphic 

 panels, and provided installation services. The opening 

 of the exhibition of 210 photographs, videos, and instal- 

 lation art by 39 Puerto Rican, Cuban-American, and 

 Mexican-American artists coincided with Secretary I. 

 Michael Hey man's announcement of the creation of a 

 new Center for Latino Initiatives. Special assistance for 

 the exhibition was provided by the Counselor to the 

 Secretary for Community Affairs and Special Projects. 



May 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian Institution Libraries 

 opened Audubon & the Smithsonian, its exhibition featur- 

 ing the National Audubon Society's double-elephant 

 folio edition (68 X 101 cm; 27 X 40 in.) of The Birds of 

 America (on long-term loan to the Libraries), other 

 Audubon volumes, and a variety of Smithsonian books, 

 manuscripts, specimens, personal memorabilia, and 

 artworks in the Libraries' Exhibition Gallery (located in 

 the National Museum of American History). A number 

 of specimens and a variety of Audubon-related objects 

 came to the Smithsonian as a direct consequence of 

 Audubon's friendship with Spencer Baird, the Smithson- 

 ian's first assistant secretary and the man credited with 

 creating the U.S. National Museum, according to guest 

 curator Helena Wright of the National Museum of 

 American History. 



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