January 



January— September 



■ Award Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings won the 

 American Library Association's award for Children's 

 Notable Recordings in 1990 for rhe recording A Fish 

 That's a Song: Songs and Stories for Children Inspired by 

 the Hemphill Collection of the National Museum of Ameri- 

 can Art. 



U International Project The Office of the Assistant Secre- 

 tary for Externa] Affairs served as consultant for federal 

 agencies with respect to the 1992 United Nations Con- 

 ference on Environment and Development. The office 

 will cochair the Biodiversity Roundtable for the partici- 

 pation of nongovernmental organizations in the process. 



January 



■ Education The National Science Resources Center's 

 Science and Technology for Children project began trial 

 teaching two new units of hands-on science instruc- 

 tion — Weather and Me (grade 1) and Sounds (grade 3) — in 

 Washington, D.C., public schools. 



January 



■ Workshop In conjunction with the long-awaited na- 

 tional tour of the Anacostia Museum's exhibition, "The 

 Real McCoy: African American Invention and Innova- 

 tion," the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition 

 Service held a preparatory workshop for educators, cura- 

 tors, content specialists, and representatives from host 

 museums in the field. 



January 



m Research Researchers at the Smithsonian Astrophysi- 

 cal Observatory's Whipple Observatory made the first 

 confirmed detection of gamma rays from the Crab Neb- 

 ula, thus establishing that object as a "standard candle" 

 for ground-based observers. 



January 



■ Special Project The Office of the Assistant Secretary 

 for Public Service helped establish a pan-Smithsonian as- 

 sociation with the Quality Education for Minorities 

 Network to foster educational science programs for mi- 

 norities and women. 



January— March 



■ International Project The Office of the Assistant Secre- 

 tary for External Affairs worked with the U.S. Agency 

 for International Development to plan the U.S. position 

 for the indigenous peoples section of an international 

 forestry convention. 



January I 



■ New Facility The Infant and Toddler Center opened 

 in rhe Arts and Industries Building for 30 children rang- 

 ing in age from three months to two years. The Office 

 of Design and Construction supervised design and 

 construction. 



January 7 



■ Milestone A full-page advertisement signed by celebri- 

 ties from all walks of life appeared in the New York Times, 

 the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago 

 Tribune launching the fund-raising campaign for the 

 Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. 



January 14 



m Collection Information The Office of Horticul ture 

 began the cataloging onto laser disc of 20,000 glass and 

 35mm slides in the Archives of American Gardens. 



January 16 



m Lecture A Woodrow Wilson Center session on "Lessons 

 of Eastern Europe for China" featured world-renowned 

 Chinese dissident Liu Binyan, who summarized the lesson 

 of Eastern Europe for China. By demonstrating that the 

 lines between these two reform movements were parallel, 

 he depicted the 1989 political upheavals in Eastern Europe 

 as a key and continuing source of influence in China. 



January 16 



■ Awards The local chapter of the Society for Techni- 

 cal Communication honored a number of Office of Pub- 

 lic Affairs products in its annual publications 

 competition. Smithsonian News Service feature stories 

 won three second-place awards and one third place; Re- 

 search Reports won third place for the newsletter as a 

 whole and for an individual story; a Torch article won a 

 third-place award; and a brochure coproduced by OPA 



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