the National Museum of Natural History; and Marine-ter- 

 restrial flora and fauna ofCayos Cochinos Archipelago. Honduras, 

 edited by Hector M. Guzman of STRI. 



Since its opening in 1990, STRI's Earl S. Tupper Research 

 and Conference Center has become a major venue for scientific 

 conferences. From January 26 through 31 the International 

 Bryozoology Association held its meetings at the Tupper Cen- 

 ter gathering 75 participants from 15 nations. From March 29 

 through April 3 the Tupper Center served as venue for the 

 First International Workshop on Sustainable Cocoa Growing, 

 organized by STRI, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center 

 and the Institute for Conservation Biology. The conference 

 gathered experts from the leading cocoa producing countries 

 and major chocolate manufacturers. The workshop centered 

 around discussions on the global state of scientific knowledge 

 on cacao and its role in improving rhe conditions of small 

 farmers and protecting tropical biodiversity. 



Another major meeting organized by STRI was held at the 

 Smithsonian Institution in Washington from July 30 through 

 August 2, and brought together biologists working on the 

 various forest plots sponsored by the Center for Tropical 

 Forest Science (CTFS), a collaborative research project among 

 STRI and Princeton and Harvard Universities. Researchers 

 from 11 countries working at the 13 forest dynamic sites, 

 presented their results to other network members and 

 developed collaborative projects. 



Pnnceron University, in coordination with STRI, held a 

 full-semester program in Panama for 18 undergraduate stu- 

 dents in biology, that lasted from February 1 through May 1. 

 The program consisted of courses in tropical ecology and 

 conservation taught by Princeton's Stephen P. Hubbell; on 

 pre-Columbian peoples and their environments taught by 

 Richard Cooke and Dolores Pipemo of STRI, and rwo elec- 

 tives: tropical marine invertebrates, taught by Penelope 

 Barnes from STRI, and genetic diversity of tropical popula- 

 tions, taught by Hope Hollecher from Princeton. 



Beginning January 1998, staff scientist A. Stanley Rand 

 became senior scientist emeritus. Based now in the Washing- 

 ton area, Rand continues to spend four months of the year 

 conducting research and advising srudents at STRI. 

 Paleoecologist Paul Colinvaux retired from STRI on Septem- 

 ber 30 to take up an appoincment as visiting scientist at the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 

 Biologist Llewellya Hillis also departed from STRI at the end 

 of this fiscal year. Staff scientists Nancy Knowlton and Jeremy 

 B.C. Jackson initiated their appointments as professors of 

 marine biology and oceanography of the Scripps Institute of 

 Oceanography in California. They will continue to maintain 

 part-time positions and research programs at STRI. Lucy 

 Dorick, STRI's Development Directot resigned to accept a 

 new position as vice president fot Development of the World 

 Resources Institute. 



The Center fot Museum Srudies facilitates learning about 

 museum theories and practices. Using the Smithsonian's uni- 

 que resources, the center provides training and research oppor- 



tunities to museum professionals, studenrs, volunreers, and 

 cultural resource specialists. 



Collaborating with the Inter-Universiry Program for Latino 

 Research (IUPLR), the center developed a new Rockefeller 

 Humanities Fellowship Program with the theme "Latino 

 Cultural Research in a National Museum Context: Issues of 

 Represenration and Interpretation." The fellowships, a mix of 

 residencies for scholars and museum professionals, will be 

 interdisciplinary and will support Latino/a focused scholarship 

 using the extensive cultural, archival, historical, and profes- 

 sional resources that only the Smithsonian can offer. Projects 

 will link arr and the politics of public display, encompass in- 

 depth and advanced research in rhe museum and curatorial 

 fields, and contribure much-needed Latino-focused perspec- 

 tives and interpretations to topics within many Smithsonian 

 collections. A different theme will be explored each year. In 

 1998-1999, residencies will be hosted by the National 

 Museum of American Art and will focus on Latino art inter- 

 pretation and representation. The 1999—2000 year span will 

 be hosted by the National Museum of American History, with 

 residencies focusing on Latino history. Residencies for 2000— 

 2001 will focus on cultural studies and community-based re- 

 search and will be hosted by the Center for Folklife Programs 

 and Cultural Srudies, the Anacostia Museum, the Center for 

 African American History and Culture, and the National 

 Museum of Natural History Department of Anthropology. 



The Center initiated a collaboration with Montgomery 

 Community College, Rockville, Maryland, to establish the 

 Montgomery College Humanities Institute. The Institute will 

 host a wide range of scholarly and community-focused activi- 

 ties, including an annual faculty seminar led by a Smithsonian 

 scholar-in-residence, museum-based faculry research fellow- 

 ships, student internships at the Smithsonian, public lectures 

 and symposia, and an enhanced Humanities Honors Program. 

 The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the 

 college a $500,000 challenge grant and fund-raising is well 

 under way for the Institute. In working systematically with 

 Montgomery College, Maryland's largest and one of the 

 nation's best community colleges, the Center for Museum 

 Studies hopes to develop a model for museums across the 

 nation to collaborate with their local community colleges in 

 using museum resources to strengthen the teaching of 

 humanities. 



The Cenrer for Museum Srudies, with the Program for 

 Asian Pacific American Srudies, presented "Diversity, Leader- 

 ship, and Museums: The Representation of Asian Pacific 

 American Communities" at the Japanese Ametican National 

 Museum (JANM), May 6-9, 1998, in Los Angeles, California. 

 The seminar, a pilot program funded by rhe Anheuser-Busch 

 Companies and the Smithsonian Institution Educational 

 Outreach Fund with additional support from the Hawaii 

 Museums Association, explored diversiry issues in museums 

 and examined current issues affecting Asian Pacific Americans 

 in the museum profession. The curriculum emphasized prob- 

 lem solving strategies, team building techniques, and com- 



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