May 24 



■ Design Awards Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Mu- 

 seum received seven 1995 Federal Design Achievement 

 Awards for recent exhibitions and the publication The 

 Edge of the Millennium. 



May 2$ 



■ Milestone The first breeding outside the wild of a 

 Hawaiian honeycreeper was achieved at the National 

 Zoo's Conservation and Research Center. Scientists at 

 the center are using several nonendangered types of 

 honeycreepers as research surrogates to develop hus- 

 bandry and propagation techniques fot Hawaii's highly 

 endangered avian species. 



May 26 



■ Special Event To promote the Smithsonian as a primary 

 United States travel destination for foreign visitors, the 

 Visitor Information and Associates' Reception Center 

 cohosted a reception for major international tour operators 

 at the National Air and Space Museum with the Washing- 

 ton, D.C., Convention and Visitors Association. 



May 26 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian Institution Libraries ex- 

 hibition "Science and the Artist's Book," cosponsored by 

 the Washington Project for the Arts, explored how sci- 

 entific ideas can stimulate artistic creation. The year- 

 long show, featured in the June 1995 Smithsonian 

 magazine, displays original artists' books inspired by 

 and displayed with pioneering scientific studies in the 

 rare book collections of the Libraries' Dibner Library of 

 the History of Science and Technology. 



May 30 



■ Lecture Roald Hoffmann. Cornell University's Nobel 

 laureate in chemistry, poet, and author, delivered the 

 Dibner Library Lecture, "Chemistry Imagined," which 

 explored connections between science and art. The 

 lecture was featured in con]unction with the opening of 

 the Smithsonian Institution Libraries exhibition 

 "Science and the Artist's Book." 



of American History through a $10.4 million gift from 

 inventor Jerome Lemelson and his wife, Dorothy. Their 

 cash donation is the largest ever given to the Smithson- 

 ian Institution by an individual. 



Summer 



■ Teachers' Workshops The National Museum of Ameri- 

 can Art hosted three week-long summer workshops for 

 teachers from across the country, extending the use of 

 the museum's education resource materials. 



Summer 



■ Grant The National Museum of American Art re- 

 ceived a five-year grant to continue a New Media Learn- 

 ing Environment project in Nebraska that will facilitate 

 offering museum art and information online to schools. 

 A summer workshop focused on integrating art and 

 technology. The museum is also working on an online 

 pilot project involving Texas schools. 



June 



■ New Membership Program The National Air and 

 Space Society was established as an individual member- 

 ship program designed to raise capital funds for the 

 building of the National Air and Space Museum's 

 Dulles Center as well as to support the museum's 

 restoration and preservation projects and educational 

 programs. By the end of the fiscal year, the society had 

 more than 2,000 contributing members. 



June 



■ New Department The National Museum of American 

 Art established a development department and 

 launched a quarterly members' newsletter to keep spe- 

 cial constituents in closer touch with museum activities 

 and behind-the-scenes information. 



June 



■ Internships Intern '95, sponsored by the Office of Ele- 

 mentary and Secondary Education, brought its 20th 

 class of graduating high school seniors to Washington 

 for career-related work experience in the museums. 



May 3/ 



June 



U Major Gift and New Facility The Jerome and ■ Electronic Republishing The Smithsonian Institution 



Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention Libraries launched an electronic republishing program 



and Innovation was established at the National Museum with a pilot project funded by the Atherton Seidell En- 



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