On a beautiful May afternoon, Smithsonian Faculty Fellows new and old, along with members of the Montgomery College community and guests from the Smithsonian, gathered in the Cultural Arts Center at the College's Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus to celebrate the…
by Professor Matthew Decker The Fellows were in especially esteemed company as Maria Marable-Bunch, Associate Director of Museum Learning and Programs, welcomed them to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) last Thursday. While she shared appropriately glowing reviews…
The MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship program is delighted to announce the 10 new Fellows selected for the 2023 cohort. As always, competition was strong, and the Committee was faced with the tough task of selecting the new cohort. The group represents…
The National Museum of the American Indian was at the center of our final 2022 museum seminar, with the topic for the afternoon being Living Earth: Saving Sacred Spaces. Throughout the United States, sites sacred to the Native peoples of…
Our fifth museum seminar found us at the National Museum for African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). We were honored once again to have Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Deputy Director of NMAAHC, join us for the afternoon sharing both her wisdom…
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.…