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...Williams, who is currently the director of education at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, was previously the director of education at the Peabody Essex Museum and also the head of education at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian, where he and Lentz were colleagues. Williams could not be reached for comment over the weekend...

Author: By Bora Fezga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grad School of Education Alum To Become HUAM’s First Director of Education | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

Keller may be convinced, but others aren't. Sediment samples off the coasts of Senegal, Florida and Antarctica contradict her timeline, suggesting the mass extinction came right after the asteroid impact. "We've got beautiful sediments," says Brian Huber, a curator of paleontology at the Smithsonian Institution. "We have a continuous record of the event." Even 65 million years after the crime, the identity of the real perp is once again in dispute. And with eyewitnesses out of the question, the debate could go on for a while. India 65 million years ago and today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dinosaur Conspiracy Theory | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...states that black holes near stars should be smaller than average, rather than larger, as M33 X-7 is. “The assumptions about how stars form black holes may need to be revised or revisited,” Orosz said. Daniel Steeghs, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who was not involved with either team, said that these discoveries should generate a lot of interest among both theorists and observers. “It’s very exciting—it always is—when you initially discover something you can?...

Author: By Daniel A. Handlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Astronomers Find Black Holes | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...sugar, berries and turnip greens for color and texture, Sudduth, a star of the folk-art explosion of the 1980s, painted his life--his dog, farm animals and, after traveling, the U.S. Capitol. Sudduth's works are in the permanent collections of a number of museums and the Smithsonian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 24, 2007 | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...Smithsonian hosts the National Powwow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Aug. 27, 2007 | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

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