Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thanks to a $650,000 federal grant, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are developing new affordable telescopes they hope will improve high school science education nationwide...
Andrew R. Molnar, director of Applications for Advanced Technology Programs, a division of NSF that awards $6.5 million in grant money every year, said yesterday that the Harvard-Smithsonian project was selected because it will encourage student involvement in scientific research...
Preliminary designs for the inexpensive automated electronic telescope have already been drafted by a team of five Harvard-Smithsonian engineers, Sadler said. He expects the Center will have constructed several devices for use in schools before the two-year program ends...
...most of the unearthed Indian bones lie moldering and unexamined in museum basements; and 2) little if any data gathered from their study are shared with the descendants. According to Suzan Shown Harjo, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, the only bit of information the Smithsonian ever imparted to her group was that their ancestors ate corn. "We could have told them that anyway," says Harjo, citing the accuracy of Indian oral tradition...
Nevertheless, common sense argues for wider acceptance of the Smithsonian's accord, even at the risk of some loss to scholarship. As Harjo notes, the agreement applies "modern standards of ethics to yesterday's abuses." And it may help forestall the future desecration of lands that others hold sacred in memory...