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Professor Decker’s class visits the National Portrait Gallery!
by Professor Matthew Decker, English I’ve been a college English professor—a role undeniably designated to the realm of true adulting—for nearly 8 years, but I still vividly recall some of my elementary and middle school field trips. I remember sheepishly…
2020 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship Theme announced!!! Is this your year?
Humans and the Footprints We Leave: Climate Change and Other Critical Challenges The unfolding epic of Planet Earth and the role humans have played in the complex drama of an ever-changing and endangered environment will be the focus of the…
Reception Time!
Each Spring, the Montgomery College-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship celebrates the outgoing and current Smithsonian Faculty Fellow cohorts with a reception at one of the museums. This year we gathered in the library of the Smithsonian Castle to honor our 2018 Fellows…
National Portrait Gallery
As is often the case, our museum seminar series ended with a trip to the National Portrait Gallery. As is always the case, it was a spectacular afternoon. The focus of the day was the current exhibit, Eye to I:…
Spacesuits: Physics + Culture = Same but different
One of the hallmarks of the Cold War period between the United States and the U.S.S.R., was the Space Race. From the successful launch of Sputnik 1 by the Russian side to the American moon landing, the race mirrored the…