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tion on Jodhpur painting, "The Politics and Aesthetics of 

 Citation: Nath Paintings at the Jodhput Court, 

 1803-1S43." 



August 1 1 



• Award The Smithsonian American Art Museum an- 

 nounces the 2000 winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize 

 for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art, Dr. Wanda 

 M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in art history 

 at Stanford University, for her book The Great American 

 Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915—1935 (Univer- 

 sity of California Press, 1999). 



August 12 



'Award The Smithsonian American Art Museum was 

 selected to participate in a trilateral educational Web site 

 called "Pan-American Perspectives: The Land in Art." 

 Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. Secretary of State announced 

 this project at the third annual Trilateral Ministerial 

 Meeting in Santa Fe. This first multilingual Web partner- 

 ship links SAAM with museums in Canada and Mexico, 

 under the leadership of the Canadian Heritage Information 

 Network. 



August 12 



■ Exhibition "Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the 

 Universe — Version 2" began a national tour at the Castle 

 Museum in Saginaw, Michigan. Especially designed for 

 display in smaller galleries, the exhibition explores the 

 telescope, its history and its mission. The exhibition was 

 developed by SITES and the Space Telescope Science Insti- 

 tute (STScI). 



August 15 



■ Donation The Smithsonian American Art Museum an- 

 nounced the establishment of the New Media/New Century 

 Award in support of new art created for the Web. This award 

 is made possible by Dominion, an energy company head- 

 quartered in Richmond, Virginia, as part of an ongoing 

 partnership with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 

 Through this award, rhe museum is supporting projects that 

 explore how the new medium of Web art affects the Ameri- 

 can landscape as a subject. 



August 1 8 



■ Award program established The Libraries' Spencer Baird 

 Society, the premiere annual giving and donor recognition 

 organizarion, will fund awards for resident scholars to work 

 for up to six months in the Libraries special collections. The 

 Baird Society Resident Scholar Program joins the Libraries' 

 Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program, supported since 

 1992 by The Dibner Fund of Wilton, Connecticut. 



August 18 



■ Exhibition, special event The new facility for rhe Chabot 

 Space and Science Center affiliate opened in Oakland, Cali- 

 fornia. Through this affiliation, the Smithsonian's National 

 Museum of American History loaned more than a dozen sig- 

 nificant historical telescopes and astronomical instrumenrs 

 for the exhibition hall, "History of Astronomy in California: 

 1850— 1950." Additional loans of meteorite specimens from 

 the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History were 

 sent for display in the Center's exhibition "The Origins and 

 Meaning of Meteorites." 



August 1 9-October 29 



■ Traveling exhibition "Hans Namuth: Portrairs," an exhibi- 

 rion organized by the National Portrait Gallery, was on view 

 at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, Long Island, New 

 York. 



August 21-22 



■ Interview Roger "Buck" Hill, a saxophonist, was inter- 

 viewed for the Smithsonian Institution Jazz Oral History 

 Program. The Jazz Oral History Program is part of Amer- 

 ica's Jazz Heritage, a partnership of the Lila Wallace- 

 Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution. 



August 22 



■ Transition One of the Zoo's most popular animals, Nancy, 

 an African elephant, is euthanized. 



August 25 



■ Event A paper describing the ongoing conservarion space 

 suit research, which is being supported by a "Save America's 

 Treasures" grant, was delivered to the national meeting of 

 the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. The 

 conservation project, funded through a partnership between 

 The White House Millennium Council and The National 

 Trust for Historic Preservation, is designed to save threat- 

 ened artifacts from the Apollo Space Program now in the 

 National Air and Space Museum's collection. During fiscal 

 year 2000, specialists in the museum completed work on 88 

 objects, including six actual Apollo lunar spacesuits and var- 

 ious other space-related components. 



August 29-30 



■ Focus groups The Office of Public Affairs, in conjunction 

 with the Institutional Studies Office, held three focus groups 

 made up of a random sampling of staff, who were asked to 

 discuss and give their opinions on various aspecrs of the em- 

 ployee newspaper, The Torch. 



September 



■ Anniversary celebration SERC and 300 guests celebrated its 

 35th anniversary with honors presented by Maryland Gover- 



