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…
Every February, our outgoing Smithsonian Faculty Fellows share their work with the Montgomery College community. In spite of a global pandemic, the tradition continued. The 2020 Fellows faced a series of unprecedented challenges. Only one museum seminar happened in a…
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…
by Mercia Rindler, Professor, English The semester started much the way the Spring semester ended – online! Despite having a few months of remote teaching under my belt, I felt some trepidation as I logged into Zoom the first day…