September 



September 



m Education Program By the end of the fiscal yeat, the 

 National Zoo had initiated several new programs involv- 

 ing inner-city children. The NOAHS (New Opportuni- 

 ties in Animal Health Sciences) Scientists in the 

 Classroom project funded by a Hughes Foundation 

 giant, the LiFE (Learning Is a Family Experience) pro- 

 gram, and the Concerned Black Men's program bring 

 children of all ages from diverse communities into con- 

 tact with Zoo staff members. The children, and in some 

 cases theit parents, learn about animals and the daily 

 work at the Zoo from the perspective of keepers, cura- 

 tors, scientists, and exhibit designers. 



September 



■ Research A new ultraviolet spectral radiometer, de- 

 signed, built, and calibrated by the Smithsonian Envi- 

 ronmental Research Center, was the most cost-effective 

 and reliable instrument tested by the National Institute 

 of Standards and Technology. The Smithsonian instru- 

 ment will be used in the U.S. Global Change Program 

 to monitor the intensity of solar ultraviolet radiation at 

 the Earth's surface. 



September 



■ Workshop The Office of Printing and Photographic 

 Services participated in the Fifth Electronic Picture 

 Workshop sponsored by the National Press Photogra- 

 phers Association. Results of the workshop were made 

 available worldwide in digital form on the Internet. 



September 



■ Exhibitions During fiscal year 1994, the Smithsonian 

 Institution Traveling Exhibition Service traveled a total 

 of 253 exhibitions to 44 states and the District of Colum- 

 bia. SITES exhibitions were also on view in the Virgin 

 Islands, Guam, Saipan, Canada, and Japan. 



September 



■ Publication The National Museum of African Art 

 produced a full-color book. The Voyage of King Njoya's 

 Gift: A Beaded Sculpture from the Bamum Kingdom. Camer- 

 oon, in the National Museum of African Art. The book, 

 which examines an important work in the museum's 

 permanent collection, was written by Christraud Geary, 

 curator of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives. 



■ Online Service By the end of the first year of the Na- 

 tional Museum of Ametican Art's participation on the 

 commercial online service, America Online, more than 

 105,000 electronic visitors downloaded 28,000 images 

 from the collection, perused exhibition schedules and 

 entire publications with images, participated in art quiz- 

 zes and bulletin board discussions, and posted art refer- 

 ence questions answered online by the museum's 

 reference staff. 



September 



■ Research The Spartan 201 satellite, carrying an instru- 

 ment designed at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Obser- 

 vatory to measure the solar corona in ultraviolet light, 

 was successfully flown for a second time in conjunction 

 with a space shuttle mission. Observations were made of 

 several regions of the sun's hot outer atmosphere, or co- 

 rona, where the solar wind is thought to originate. 



September I 



■ Graphic Identity Cooper-Hewitt, National Design 

 Museum unveiled its new graphic identity, including a 

 logo, stationery, and signage, created by the New York 

 design firm Drenttel Doyle Partners. The new identity 

 signals broad changes reflecting the museum's mission: 

 to raise public awareness about the ways in which de- 

 sign affects every aspect of daily life. 



September I 



■ Research A new cosmic distance scale derived from 

 observing the expanding atmospheres of exploded stars, 

 or supernovae, allowed Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob- 

 servatory scientists and collaborators to estimate the 

 universe's age as approximately 14 billion years, consid- 

 erably younger than the 20-billion-year age preferred by 

 some theorists but still old enough to allow evolution of 

 the oldest stars. 



September p 



■ Exhibition "Aerial Inspirations: Silk Batiks by Mary 

 Edna Fraser," an exhibition of more than 50 large-scale 

 silk batiks and a selection of smaller color studies and 

 monotype prints, opened in the National Air and Space 

 Museum's Flight and the Arts gallery. The exhibition 

 was to be on view through June 4. 



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