Deputy Director McKinley Hudson joined the National 

 Zoo staff on June I. Hudson retired from the United States 

 Army in June, 1993, with the rank of colonel, after 30 years of 

 service. He has assumed the role of chief operating officer 

 with the responsibility of assisting the director in the manage- 

 ment of all programs and activities at the Zoo. With a 

 bachelor's degree in biology, a graduate degree in education, 

 and many years of experience managing complex organiza- 

 tions, Hudson is well suited for his role in helping to shape 

 the future of the Zoo. 



"The Tropical Nature of Venezuela," an exhibit of photo- 

 graphs provided by the Venezuelan government, went on dis- 

 play in the Amazonia Gallery from June 23 to August 15. The 

 photos featured stunning scenes of protected natural areas in 

 the Venezuelan regions of Guyana, Los Andes, El Caribe, Los 

 Llanos, Amazonas and Cordillera de la Costa. 



The National Zoological Park's Conservation and Research 

 Center, Front Royal, Virginia, began several new conservation 

 initiatives. Training programs were expanded to include three 

 month internships for undergraduates as well as one week in- 

 tensive courses in bird censusing and monitoring, vegetation 

 survey techniques and conservation uses of image processing. 

 Most significantly, a remore sensing/geographic information 

 systems laboratory was established for use in international 

 training programs and biodiversity investigations. 



On June 8, Uncle Beazley, a 25-foot long fiberglass rep- 

 lica of a triceratops, was officially installed in an outdoor 

 enclosure a the Zoo's elephant house. Thirty years ago 

 Uncle Beazley was sculpted for the Sinclair Oil Company's 

 pavilion at the New York World's Fair. He came to the Na- 

 tional Museum of Natural History after the 1964 Fair 

 where he became a favorite of young visitors for decades. 

 Uncle Beazley was restored by the Smithsonian's Museum 

 Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, before coming to 

 the Zoo. 



The Zoo received three awards at the national meeting of 

 the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, in September, 

 the Conservation Award for the NZP Golden Lion Tamarin 

 Conservation and Reintroduction Program, the Significant 

 Achievement Award for the successful breeding of Matschies 

 tree kangaroo, and the Edward H. Bean Award (shared with 

 Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and the Minnesota Zoological 

 Garden) for outstanding work to conserve the endangered 

 tiger. 



Biological research at NZP continued at an extra- 

 ordinary pace in FY94. Over 120 articles were published in 

 scientific journals by NZP researchers on subjects ranging 

 from lion hormones to polygyny in monkeys to Hawaiian 

 bird DNA. 



The New Opportunities in Animal Health Sciences 

 (NOAHS) Center, headquartered at NZP, employed its mo- 

 bile reproductive physiology laboratory to train more than 

 100 veterinarians and wildlife professionals and students in 

 India, Thailand and Namibia in the latest biomedical tech- 

 niques vital to conserving disappearing species. 



NZP maintained its energetic development efforts. Support 

 received for a number of programs totalled over $1.6 million. 

 Donations from eighteen significant contributors ranged 

 from $5,000 to $500,000/. Friends of the National Zoo 

 (FONZ) grants to NZP exceeded $500,000 in FY94. The 

 nth annual FONZ-sponsored gala, ZooFari, raised an addi- 

 tional $210,000 for NZP research, exhibits and education 

 programs. 



The Friends of the National Zoo (FONZ) volunteers — 

 900 strong — contributed over 86,000 hours of vital assis- 

 tance, ranging from educational research to animal care in 

 FY94. The Audio Tour, funded by the Friends of the Na- 

 tional Zoo, became an established self-guided safari 

 through thirty NZP exhibits. FONZ held its first annual 

 "Menagerie Masquerade" on October 30. Three hundred 

 costumed spirits made this ball a major success and a cer- 

 tain annual event. 



Office of Fellowships and Grants 



Roberta W. Rubinoff, Director 



The Office of Fellowships and Grants manages the 

 Smithsonian's centralized fellowship and internship pro- 

 grams, all stipend appointments and other programs that 

 support research. Through these research programs, schol- 

 ars and students from throughout the world come to the 

 Institution to use its varied collections and work with 

 Smithsonian staff The office also administers programs to 

 increase minority participation in Smithsonian research ac- 

 tivities and disciplines. Two competitive grant programs 

 managed by the office provide scholarly support for 

 Smithsonian professional staff Over 900 awards were of- 

 fered to students, scholars and scientists from the United 

 States and abroad to utilize the Institution's resources and 

 collections. These awards included fellowships, intern- 

 ships, and short-term travel awards. 



The office and the National Zoological Park co-sponsored a 

 public talk by Paul Ewald to discuss his new book Evolution of 

 Infectious Disease published by the Oxford University Press. 

 The book was largely a result of research conducted during 

 the tenure of his George E Burch Fellowship administered by 

 this office. 



The office offered 77 awards under the Smithsonian Fellow- 

 ship Program. Fifteen of these were to students and scholars 

 from under-represented groups which is 19% of the total 

 awards. 



Over 200 applications were received for the Minority 

 Internship Program. Thirty-seven students from 16 states and 

 29 schools received awards to assist in ongoing research and 

 museum related projects in 16 bureaus and offices of the 

 Institution. 



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