Gallery's center, long platforms displaying literally 

 dozens of silhouetted and three-dimensional sculptures 

 of birds, stars, flowers, rabbits, cats, snowflakes, 

 raindrops, eggs, and other natural elements. 



March ip 



■ Outreach The Institutional History Division of 

 Smithsonian Institution Archives produces "Historic 

 Pictures of the Smithsonian Institution," a site on its 

 home page that provides a comprehensive visual tour of 

 Smithsonian museums and research centers. 



March 20-August 2 



■ Exhibition "Faces of TIME: 75 Years oiTime 

 Magazine Cover Portraits" was on view at the National 

 Portrait Gallery. Organized to mark the 75th anniver- 

 sary of Time, this exhibition was drawn primarily from 

 the Gallery's collection of original Time cover artwork 

 and represented some of the finest and most interest- 

 ing moments in the magazine's newsmaker-of-the- 

 week cover tradition. Among the most eye-catching 

 pieces was a life-size papier-mache caricature of The 

 Beatles. The show's curator was Senior Historian 

 Frederick S. Voss. 



March 23-27 



■ Presentation In San Juan, Mayaguez, and Ponce, Puer- 

 to Rico, National Science Resources Center Executive 

 Director Douglas Lapp and Deputy Director Sally 

 Goetz Shuler presented workshops to government, busi- 

 ness, and education leaders. They discussed science 

 education reform and presented workshops on inquiry- 

 centered science teaching. 



March 26 



■ Ecologist Dies Dt. James Lynch died. A Terrestrial 

 Animal Ecologist at SERC since 1974, Dr. Lynch pub- 

 lished more than 70 scientific articles on the ecology of 

 salamanders, ants, and birds, with special emphasis on 

 habitat fragmentation and conservation. 



March 26 



■ Training Seminar The Smithsonian Accessibility 

 Program presented a training session titled "An Acces- 

 sibility Critique of 'American Encounters.'" The session 

 was offered to accessibility liaisons, exhibition desig- 



ners, and exhibit team members, as well as all staff 

 responsible for working with the public. Presenting the 

 session was a group of people with disabilities who criti- 

 qued the exhibition from both a personal and consumer 

 advocacy perspective. 



March 2<h April } 



■ Meeting The First International Workshop on Sus- 

 tainable Cocoa Growing organized by the Tropical Re- 

 search Institute, the Migratory Bird Center, and the 

 Institute for Conservation Biology was held at STRI's 

 Earl S. Tupper Research and Conference Center. The 

 meeting gathered more than 80 international par- 

 ticipants, both chocolate manufacturers and repre- 

 sentatives from cacao-producing countries. 



March }1 



■ Special Event The U.S. Postal Service launched a new 

 fotm of computer-generated postage at the National 

 Postal Museum. PC-based postage, created by E-Stamp 

 Corporation, enables mailers to electronically mail let- 

 ters and documents through the Postal Service without 

 affixing postage stamps. 



April 



■ Grant A $500,000 challenge grant awarded to the 

 NMAI by the Kresge Foundation in July 1997 was 

 successfully completed in April thanks to the generous 

 support of individuals, corporations, and foundations. 

 Funds raised through the Kresge challenge grant 

 totaled $1.6 million. 



April 



■ Panda Studies NZP's panda conservation team 

 returned from China. Scientific specialists from three 

 U.S. zoos worked with colleagues at Chinese zoos to 

 carry out the first health and teproductive survey of 

 giant pandas in China's zoos. 



April 



■ School Envirothon SERC served as one of three hosts 

 for the Anne Arundel County Envirothon, a program to 

 teach middle-school students basic environmental prin- 

 ciples and ways to apply them to real-world problems 

 in their communities. 



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