January 15-16 



February 



■ Presentation In San Juan and Humacao, Puerto Rico, 

 National Science Resources Center Executive Director 

 Douglas Lapp and Deputy Direccor Sally Goetz Shuler 

 presented workshops to government, business, and 

 education leaders. They discussed science education 

 reform and presented workshops on inquiry-cenrered 

 science teaching. 



January 17 



■ Exhibition "We Shall Overcome: Photographs from 

 America's Civil Rights Era" began its national tour 

 with a very successful opening at the National Museum 

 of American History. The tour, which continues 

 through the year 2004, includes stops in California, 

 Georgia, New York, and Pennsylvania. The exhibition 

 explores the role of several prominent African American 

 photographers — Bob Adelman, Bob Fitch, Leonard 

 Freed, Mart Heron, Charles Moore, and Gordon Parks — 

 in documenting one of the most decisive eras in 

 American history. The 80 black-and-white photographs 

 focus on key events and personalities in the civil tights 

 era (1954-1968). 



January 23 



■ Outreach The National Collections Program of the 

 Smithsonian Institution Archives launches its home 

 page, featuring guidelines, publications, and other 

 resources of use to museums and collections managers. 



January 26 



■ Radio Advertising Campaign The first radio advertise- 

 ment ran in the Office of Public Affairs' Black History 

 Month campaign, one of three radio advertising 

 campaigns this year aimed at local African American 

 audiences, ages 25 to 45. Another campaign was run in the 

 spring for spring break and a third in the summer for the 

 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The following stations wete 

 used in the three campaigns in different combinations: 

 WHUR, WMMJ, WKYS, WPGC, WYCB, and WTOP. 



January 26-51 



■ Meeting Seventy-five scholars from 15 countries 

 gathered for the meetings of the International Byozool- 

 ogy Association held at the Tropical Research Institute's 

 Earl S. Tupper Conference Center. 



■ Publication A strategic plan for implementing the 

 capital campaign was drafted and distributed by the 

 Office of the Executive Ditector for Development. 



February 



■ Outreach In observance of Black History Month, the 

 Archives of American Art inaugurated online access to 

 the second, revised edition of its guide The Papers of 

 African American Artists (1992). The guide includes 

 photographs and other illustrations. 



February 



■ Publication With the Australian Biological Resources 

 Study and the Department of Environment, Canberra, 

 the museum helped produce The Darwin Declaration, a 

 blueprint for incorporating taxonomy into the goals of 

 the International Convention on Biological Diversity. 

 Although the discovery, description, naming, and clas- 

 sification of individual species has been well carried out 

 for some groups, little is known about the taxonomy, 

 biology, distribution, and genetics of the vast majority 

 of plant and animal species. The Darwin Declaration 

 explains the importance of collections-based research to 

 understanding the environment and the threats it faces. 

 The declaration also outlines actions to be taken to sup- 

 port taxonomic research. The International Convention 

 on Biological Diversity was developed by leaders of key 

 natural history museums and research institutions, 

 policy makers, funders, and ecologists and conserva- 

 tionists, with major financial support from the 

 Smithsonian, the MacArthur Foundation, the Global 

 Environment Facility, and the U.S. Department of the 

 Interior. 



February 



■ Grant The Smithsonian Libraries was awarded a 

 grant of $3,780 by the Smithsonian Women's Commit- 

 tee to preserve nineteenth-century bindings on a collec- 

 tion of horticultural works. The grant provides money 

 to clean the books and to purchase protective bindings 

 for several hundred books. 



February 



■ Web Site Redesign SITES launched its redesigned 

 Web site: www.si.edu/SlTES. The new design provides 



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