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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...
...WASHINGTON] Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution, Vietnam War Memorial...
...Smithsonian canceled Foie Gras: A Gourmet's Passion last week after animal-rights activists--including John Gielgud and Bea Arthur--objected, saying the geese who provided the delicacy were force fed. Is it us, or have museums been easily spooked this year...