February 



Appointment: Dr. Philip Ravenhill was appointed to the newly created position of 

 chief curator at the National Museum of African Art. 



February 



Awards: The Society for Technical Communications, Washington, D.C., Chapter, cited 

 Smithsonian publications and articles for excellence. Four first place awards in 

 various categories went to the Department of Botany brochure and The Torch (both 

 awarded to the Office of Public Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution Press) and two 

 Smithsonian News Service feature stories. The Department of Botany brochure 

 subsequently won an honorable mention award in the organization's international 

 competition. 



February 1 



New Location: Smithsonian Institution Libraries opened its new National Museum of 

 African Art Branch in the Quadrangle. It was later named the Warren M. Robbins 

 Library, honoring the founder of the museum. 



February 8 



Television: National Zoological Park Director Michael Robinson showcased several zoo 

 animals on "Capital Edition," a local, Sunday morning television program. 



February 9 



Acquisition: With support from the Smithsonian Institution Regents Special 

 Acquisitions Fund, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum added a remarkable piece to other 

 extremely rare Oriental textile works in its permanent collection— a thirteenth- 

 century needlework figure of a bodhisattva, believed to have originated in China. 



February 11 



New Publication: The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education's Career Awareness 



Program published the first issue of its student newsletter, The CAP-LET. 



Developed and written by the staff and student volunteers, the newsletter reaches more 



than seven hundred program alumni, current participants, teachers, and school 



administrators. 



February 12 



Exhibition: "The Making of a Dinosaur" opened at the National Museum of Natural 

 History. Over a span of two years, visitors will be able to monitor the progress of 

 fossil-preparation experts as they carefully extract the bones of a dinosaur 

 (Coelophysis) from a ten-ton block of siltstone and reassemble the fossilized 

 remains of the 220-million-year-old dinosaur for display. 



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