Word: smithsonian
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Formed in 1973, the CFA combines the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The center employs around 900 scientists in half a dozen locations around the country...
However, the placid exterior of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA)--which also occupies a larger structure across the street--hides an epicenter of the debate over the University's treatment of its junior faculty members, according to a recent report and several faculty members...
Although she currently serves as the director of the telescope data center at CFA--a position overseen by the Smithsonian, rather than Harvard University--but does not hold the title of the directorship...
Geller currently receives a salary from the Smithsonian tied to the civil service pay scale. Harvard pays her an additional quarter of a professorial salary, bringing her income to roughly that of a tenured professor. However, Harvard's salary is contingent on her continued employment by the Smithsonian...
...WASHINGTON] Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution, Vietnam War Memorial...