timore, Maryland. The symposium focused on the ecol- 

 ogy of Chesapeake Bay and featured presentations from 

 four SERC scientists. 



August 



■ Sponsorship SITES secured a pledge for funding from 

 Lockheed Martin as the sole corporate sponsor of an 

 exhibition on the Hubble Space Telescope. The pledge 

 from Lockheed completes the funding needed for the 

 project, which includes a highly interactive large exhibi- 

 tion (3,000 square feet) designed to travel to science 

 museums and cencers in large urban areas; a small- 

 format version of the exhibition designed for museums, 

 space centers, and educational institutions with smaller 

 facilities; and a museum education trunk that will in- 

 clude hands-on classroom lessons on the Hubble Space 

 Telescope, astronomy, and mathematics. To create the 

 exhibition SITES has partnered with the Space Tele- 

 scope Institute. The exhibition is also generously 

 supported by a grant from NASA. 



August 



■ Exhibition Design The Office of Contracting 

 negotiated and awarded a contract to Douglas Gallagher 

 to redesign the Mammal Hall exhibit in the National 

 Museum of Natural History. The Kenneth E. Behring 

 Gift supports this design effort. 



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■ Exhibition Restaging The 1998 "Wisconsin" program 

 was restaged in Madison, Wisconsin, and presented 

 music, crafts, foodways, work, recreational, and religious 

 traditions to celebrate Wisconsin's 150th anniversary of 

 statehood. The "Wisconsin" program was produced for 

 the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies' 

 annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival. 



Fall 



■ Exhibition The National Museum of American Art's 

 exhibition "Eyeing America: Robert Cottingham 

 Prints" celebrated the acquisition of a set of the artist's 

 photorealist prints spanning three decades that focus on 

 signs, storefronts, and marquees, the emblematic details 

 of the urban American landscape. 



Fall 



■ Exhibitions The Renwick Gallery, a department of 

 the National Museum of American Art, introduced the 



work of a relatively unknown artist working with pure 

 gold, steel, fossil ivory, and precious gems to create 

 extraordinary objects featured in "Daniel Brush: Gold 

 without Boundaries." Beautifully installed at the 

 Renwick Gallery, it drew unusually large attendance 

 (almost 50,000 in four months). 



September 



■ Repatriation During 1998, the NMAI continued its 

 commitment, under federal law and museum policy, to 

 repatriate human remains and objects of religious and 

 cultural patrimony to Native groups throughout the 

 hemisphere. Among the most significant returns this 

 year was to the Haudenasavnee (Ironquois Confederacy) 

 in September. 



September 



■ Exhibition "The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Mean- 

 ing Among the Kuna of Panama" opened in September 

 at the George Gustav Heye Center with Kuna rribal 

 leaders in attendance. The exhibition featured approx- 

 imately 300 works of art, including vibrant molas — 

 colorful, richly decorated appliques that express all 

 aspects of Kuna culture. "The Art of Being Kuna" was 

 organized by the UCLA Fowler Museum and included 

 molas from the NMAI collection. The Smithsonian 

 Center for Latino Initiatives provided additional support 

 for the Heye Center venue. 



September 



■ International Agreement SERC and the National 

 Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research of New 

 Zealand signed a memorandum of understanding to 

 formally facilitate research collaborations between the 

 two organizations. Their cooperative programs and 

 professional training will focus on global change, land- 

 scape ecology, and coastal ecosystems at land-sea inter- 

 faces in both the United States and New Zealand. 



September 



■ National Meeting SERC hosted a national meeting 

 on global change for the U.S. UV Monitoring Work 

 Group. Present at the meeting were representatives 

 from several universities and all federal agencies in- 

 volved in measuring changes in the penetration of 

 ultraviolet solar radiation to the Earth's surface. 



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