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Geller will continue in her capacity directing the telescope data center at the Center for Astrophysics, a joint Harvard-Smithsonian venture administered by the Smithsonian, although Geller does not hold the title of director as her male predecessors...
...group. In addition to being phenomenal singers, composers and arrangers, having contributed music to films, scored ballets and acted on stage and TV, many of the members hold doctorate degrees. Berenice Johnson Reagon, the founder, is Distinguished Professor of History at the American University, and Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, which gave her words an extra weight when she spoke of the example set by leaders “who feel that you lose something when you say ‘I’m sorry’ instead of ‘We regret?...
DIED. S. DILLON RIPLEY, 87, patrician head of the Smithsonian Institution whose flair and insight guided it through its greatest period of growth; in Washington, D.C. During Ripley's two-decade reign as secretary, the Smithsonian founded seven research facilities and eight museums, including the U.S. capital's most popular, the Air and Space Museum. The number of annual visitors increased nearly threefold to 30 million...
DIED. S. DILLON RIPLEY, 87, blue-blooded ornithologist and eighth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who from 1964 to 1984 transformed an assortment of staid displays into a vibrant, far-reaching complex of fun and education; in Washington. In 1968, when the directors wanted to close the museums during the Poor People's March after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Ripley decided instead to keep them open even later so the marchers could at least go in and use the rest rooms...
...study by Philip Sadler, director of science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...