Press Releases
Smithsonian Libraries Announces Penick Fellowship Program
Friday, January 22, 2010 - 12:00amThe Smithsonian Institution Libraries announces the new Margaret Henry Dabney Penick Resident Scholar Program. Founded by a bequest of Margaret P. Nuttle, this program includes a fellowship that supports scholarly research into the legacy of Patrick Henry and his political circle, the early political history of Virginia, the history of the American Revolution, foundingera ideas and policy making, as well as science, technology and culture in Colonial America and the Early National Period.
2010Penick release__10 34.pdf Smithsonian Libraries Accepting Resident Scholar Applications for 2011
Friday, January 22, 2010 - 12:00amThe Smithsonian Institution Libraries will award grants to Dibner Library Resident Scholars and Baird Society Resident Scholars for the 2011 calendar year. These competitive shortterm grants are offered for one to six months to historians, librarians and bibliographers, as well as predoctoral and postdoctoral students, with an approved research project.
2010Resident_Scholars_release__10 35.pdf Smithsonian Libraries Hosts Symposium on Scientific Expansion
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 12:00amThe Smithsonian Institution Libraries will host a twoday symposium titled “The Era of Experiments and the Age of Wonder: Scientific Expansion in the 17th – 19th Centuries” March 4 and 5 in the National Museum of American History. This celebration marks the reopening of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, one of the Libraries’ two facilities for rare books and manuscripts.
2010SymposiumPR.pdf Smithsonian Launches Inaugural Work in the “Smithsonian Libraries Digital Editions: Sources and Critical Interpretations” Series
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 12:00amThe Smithsonian Institution will launch an online scholarly work, beginning Thursday, Nov. 16, “By Aeroplane to Pygmyland: Revisiting the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea,” by Paul Michael Taylor, director of the Asian Cultural History Program and curator in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History. It is the inaugural work of the “Smithsonian Libraries Digital Editions: Sources and Critical Interpretations,” a new series of Web-based critical editions with scholarly interpretations
2006SI-437-2006.pdf Smithsonian Institution Libraries Unveils “Darwin’s Legacy”
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 12:00amThe Smithsonian Institution Libraries opens its new exhibition “Darwin’s Legacy” in the National Museum of Natural History Sept. 10. The exhibition features the first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” (1859), a revolutionary book that changed the course of modern science. November 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the book’s publication. This exhibition will be on display through Sept. 12, 2010.
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