Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronomers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics--Professor of Astronomy Margaret Geller and Professor of Astronomy John Huchra--recently announced their discovery of a "Great Wall" of galaxies numbering about...
...Smithsonian article touched on a perpetual bane for its students: Harvard loneliness...
Most undergraduates here would admit to believing, at least for a moment, in some special quality in Harvard. My moment came and went the summer after my high school graduation. Then, on the advice of a girl-friend, I got hold of a copy of Smithsonian magazine. The magazine, following the summer 1986 bandwagon, published an essay commemorating Harvard's much-ballyhooed 350th anniversary. It was written by a Melvin Maddocks--who like many authors of such pieces boasted a class year...
...addition to the Micro Observatory, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center sponsors three other educational programs, including a summer seminar for high school astronomy teachers, a project for incorporating astronomy into high school science courses and a project using computer simulations to teach advanced physical concepts at both the secondary and college level...
...trying to mobilize the resources at these two great institutions [Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute] to address this nation's scientific dilemma," Sadler said...