Entries by Jennifer Brundage

affiliates, want to play with MIT?

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The educational game designers at MIT’s Education Arcade have been working with Smithsonian scientists and educators to create an online curated game for middle school students to be played over six weeks in the spring of 2011.   In the game, players will receive encoded messages from scientists in the far future.  These scientists are writing because much […]

how will you commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary?

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Here at Affiliations, we’ve been hearing about all kinds of plans to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.   Thinking about borrowing artifacts?  Looking for a speaker for a conference or public program?  Wonder what kinds of exhibitions other museums are organizing?   Here’s what we’ve heard so far from inside the Smithsonian and around […]

Kudos, Affiliates! March 2010

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Way to go Affiliates! Smithsonian Affiliations received $9,100 from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee to support a “blended learning” webinar on Universal Design in collaboration with the American Association of Museums.  Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center (Hutchinson, Kansas) received a grant from the Kansas Department of Commerce’s Travel and Tourism Division. The $60,600 grant will help leverage an […]

what does it mean to be human?

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  How do you define human?!  Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of its official opening on the Mall, the National Museum of Natural History plans to open a new Hall of Human Origins based on decades of cutting-edge research by Smithsonian scientists.  Part of its broader “Human Origins: What Does it Mean to be Human?” […]

Cooper-Hewitt’s new director

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  This week, Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough announced that legendary industrial designer Bill Moggridge will lead the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, starting in March.  He will become the Museum’s fourth director since its creation, and the first practioner to hold the post. Moggridge is credited with designing the world’s first laptop computer.  Among his other accomplishments, […]