by Professor Stephanie Landon, ELAP Five students from my ELAI 990 course visited the National Portrait Gallery over the weekend to discover the wealth of art that could inspire them and be relevant for their capstone project. I was eager for…
Another highlight of the Fellowship year is the annual presentation by staff from the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and this year's seminar on April 29, continued that tradition. One enduring highlight of these meetings has…
On April 15 the Fellows had the rare opportunity to have artist Hung Lui join us to talk about her upcoming exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), "Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands," which will open in August of…
Our next seminar brought us to the Deep Time exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) which looks at climate change through the lens of history. Scott Wing, Research Geologist and Curator of Paleobotany at NMNH led off…
One of the highlights of the Fellowship is the Opening Panel which kicks of our museum seminar series each year. With the continuing Covid-19 related restrictions we are continuing with remote presentations. While we would have liked to have been…
By Teresa Peachey, Adjunct Professor of Meteorology Since I teach introductory meteorology, climate change is already part of the curriculum. However, I was thrilled to weave climate change connections throughout the course as part of the Smithsonian Fellowship.…
By Brandon Wallace, Professor, Education In 2019, I traveled to Ghana for the Year of Return—a charge and call for people throughout the African diaspora, within the United States, to visit Ghana, one of the largest, former enslavement trading ports in…
by Alejandra Morales Picard, Professor, Psychology As I designed the assignments that would be the focus of my fellowship project, I was determined to create pedagogical experiences that varied in format and allowed students to use/develop different types of…
by Gina Wesley, Professor, Biology When 2020 dawned and the beginning of the Smithsonian Fellowship was quickly approaching, I was eagerly creating a rough draft of my field trip to the Deep Time exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of…
By Bill Krayer, Adjunct Professor of Meteorology Wednesday, November 11, 2020 Today was the first day of the two-week climate-change unit in both AOSC105 Intro to Meteorology and AOSC100 Weather and Climate. I introduced the Learning Lab website, and much…