Entries by Elizabeth Bugbee

2012, Seriously Amazing!

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Season’s greetings and best wishes for the new year! From your friends at Smithsonian Affiliations, Jennifer Brundage – Elizabeth Bugbee Harold Closter – Alma Douglas Aaron Glavas – Laura Hansen Christina Di Meglio Lopez Caroline Mah – Gertrude Ross Natalie Wimberly

History Colorado Center Hosts Its First Smithsonian National Youth Summit

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Special thanks for this guest post to Liz Cook, Environmental Educator at History Colorado. We were thrilled that the History Colorado Center was to be selected as one of the nine Smithsonian Affiliate sites to participate in the National Youth Summit: Dust Bowl on October 17, 2012.  Over 150 high school and middle school students from around Colorado participated, […]

the Smithsonian in Miami Science Museum’s neighborhood

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Special thanks to Lindsay Bartholomew, Science Curator at the Miami Science Museum, for allowing us to repost these amazing blogs.  With 175 Smithsonian Affiliates in 40 states, Panama and Puerto Rico, there is always an opportunity for people to engage with the Smithsonian in their own communities. Here’s an example of one Affiliate’s recent collaborations with the […]

Affiliates in the news! november 2012

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Each month we’re highlighting Affiliate-Smithsonian collaborations making headlines. Congrats to these Affiliates making news this month! If you have a clipping you’d like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee. Heard Museum (Phoenix, Ariz.) Smithsonian, Heard exhibits shed light on Code Talkers Ohio Historical Society (Columbus, Ohio) Ohio taps Smithsonian treasures  Denver Museum […]

kudos Affiliates! for November 2012

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As summer turns into autumn, Affiliate accomplishments continue to shine! The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the Arab American National Museum (Dearborn, Michigan) has been awarded $750,000 to help support cross-cultural understanding. Dr. Kenneth B. Chapman and his wife, Dr. Ulrika Holm, presented Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Gardens (Staten Island, New York) […]

coming up in affiliateland in november 2012

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Fall in affiliateland… TEXAS The Ellen Noël Art Museum hosts curator Carolyn Russo from the National Air and Space Museum, who will be giving a series of lectures and a photography class in conjunction with the In Plane View exhibition, in Odessa, 11.1-2. ARIZONA Curator John Hasse from the National Museum of American History and Affiliations […]