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In this photo: Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, speaks at the ceremony.
Scientists and educators from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and George Mason University are donning their hard hats and dusting off their shovels to break ground June 29 on a green-design conservation complex that embodies the concept of the living classroom. Since October 2008, the Smithsonian–Mason Global Conservation Studies Program has trained future conservationists with an interdisciplinary and interactive program at SCBI headquarters, the Smithsonian National Zoological Park’s 3,200-acre facility in Front Royal, Va. There, undergraduate, graduate and professional students from the U.S. and abroad participate in courses taught by prominent scientists and educators from the Zoo, Mason and other institutions.
The Smithsonian–Mason Program began with 15 undergraduate students in fall 2008. When the expansion is complete in fall 2012, SCBI Front Royal will be able to accept 60 undergraduate students and 60 graduate students and professionals.
“There is no greater goal than to invest in educating and training the next generation of conservation professionals,” said Steve Monfort, director of SCBI and co-founder of the
Smithsonian–Mason Program. “By improving science-related education and engaging students in ways that provide them with hands-on experience, we’re fulfilling that goal.”
At the groundbreaking ceremony, Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian, and Alan G. Merten, president of George Mason University, spoke about the expansion project. Two graduates of the Smithsonian–Mason program, Michelle Waterman and Joanna Lambert, offered insight about their experiences as participants of the program. Also in attendance at the ceremony were Eva Pell, the Smithsonian’s Under Secretary for Science; Roger Sant, Regent of the Smithsonian; Dennis Kelly, director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo; Monfort; and Alonso Aguirre, executive director of the Smithsonian–Mason Program.
“We are extremely excited to literally build upon this unique partnership between two highly regarded institutions,” said Aguirre. “These new facilities will allow our students to live and learn in a collaborative environment where conservation is happening every day.”
The three new buildings will be LEED-certified Gold Standard and will model the best green practices, including green-roof technology, geothermal heating and cooling, composting kitchen waste, reuse of rainwater and storm-water management. The space will house classrooms, laboratories, dining and events facilities, dormitories and study halls.
SCBI serves as the umbrella for the Smithsonian’s conservation science. The priority for SCBI’s animal collection is veterinary and reproductive research. By living in controlled environments, the 22 species—most of them little-known and endangered birds and mammals—provide ideal subjects for intensive study and the rapid acquisition of urgently needed information. Findings from these studies provide critical information for the management of captive populations and valuable insights for the conservation and management of wild populations.
For information about the Smithsonian–Mason Global Conservation Studies Program, visit the National Zoo’s website: nationalzoo.si.edu/SCBI/ConservationEducation/Smithsonian....
Photo Credit: Mehgan Murphy, Smithsonian's National Zoo
FuturPointe Dance – Guy Thorne and N’Jelle Gage
GUY THORNE is the co-founder, artistic director, choreographer and dancer at FuturPointe Dance. As artistic director, he has primary responsibility for the development and execution of the company’s artistic vision. Thorne’s current choreographic work explores the confluence of folklore as well as popular and contemporary dance forms infused with his short film and multi-media creations.
Mr. Thorne recently collaborated with 2013 McArthur Genius Award recipient Carrie Mae Weems on A Story Within A Story, which is a multi- media performance about social identity and visual imagery – with video by Weems, music by Gregory Wanamaker, choreography by Guy Thorne, and additional direction from Kimberley Bouchard. A Story Within a Story was presented at the Lougheed Festival of the Arts at SUNY-Potsdam.
Thorne also teaches for FuturPointe Dance educational programs as well as in master classes and residencies at colleges/universities and for youth in k-12 school outreach programs. Thorne was on the dance faculty at SUNY – Potsdam where he taught ballet, modern dance, and Caribbean urban and folkloric dance. In 2012, he was a Jubilation Foundation fellow. Guy used his Jubilation grant to introduce Rochester area children (ages 5 to 13) to Jonkanoo, a West African and Caribbean performing art that combines costume-making, singing, dancing and drumming.
Thorne has over 15 years of professional experience and has toured extensively and taught master classes throughout the world including in Italy, Germany, Hawaii, France, the United Kingdom and Austria. He received critical acclaim on several occasions from critics in the New York Times and from other major publications. Thorne has danced at world-class venues such as the Ted Shawn Theater at Jacob’s Pillow, Joyce Theater, and The Lincoln and Kennedy Centers, among others. Dance Theatre Production from the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts. He moved to the United States as a scholarship student at Dance Theater of Harlem in New York City before becoming a principal dancer with Garth Fagan Dance for 7 years. Thorne holds a BFA in Dance from SUNY-Brockport.
N’JELLE GAGE-THORNE FuturPointe Dance co-founder, president and choreographer N’Jelle Gage is an international dancer and educator that has worked extensively throughout the United States, Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. Although the directors of FuturPointe Dance run the company as a collaborative team, in addition to dancing and setting work on the company – Gage is specifically responsible for its administrative leadership.
N’Jelle Gage also teaches master classes in Caribbean contemporary dance techniques (Tecnica Cubana, L’Antech TM, Reggae ballet, Jamaican urban jazz) at college residencies, festivals, the Draper Center for Dance Education in New York State, and studios across the country.
In 2001, she directed and choreographed for Caribbean Performing Arts Ensemble in Florida and gained expertise from her work in music video production and ad campaigns with renowned international artists including Sean Paul, Mutabaruka, Damian Marley and Third World. She also worked as a cultural consultant for film in the United Kingdom.
Gage’s training began in classical ballet where she was the protégé of Norma Spence and performed as a soloist with Jamaica’s first amateur ballet company. During her early teens, she studied with acclaimed Polish ballerina Nina Novak at Academia Ballet Clasico in Caracas, Venezuela. She also studied with in Jamaica with Tatjana Sedunova, the artistic director of the Lithuanian Opera and Ballet Theater.
In 1991, N’Jelle was introduced to the work of Dr. L’Antoinette Stines and at 15 years old she became a professional dancer with Stines’ Avant garde modern dance company; performing in 16 international cities as a dancer with L’Acadco.
Her studies continued with the renowned Cuban ballet and contemporary dance faculty at Instituto Superior/Escuela Nacional de Artes in Havana where she studied modern technique and folklore/Orisha dance. She concluded her studies in Havana, Cuba with an internship with Danza Contemporanea de Cuba in 2000 and graduated with a teaching and performance degree.
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Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
Teaching with technology! Thanks to SGU's Educational Computing Team, our educators spent the day lost in augmented reality - getting hands on with the latest in 3D printing, virtual spaces, and video tech.
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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George Westrom, founder of Future Scientists and Engineers of America; Keith Brush, director of education at the Discovery Science Center; Joe Adams, president of the Discovery Science Center, and Raman Unnikrishnan, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
Find out what happened at the June 2014 Final Scratch Educator Meetup at MIT - bit.ly/jun2014-scratch-meetup
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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
Find out what happened at the June 2014 Final Scratch Educator Meetup at MIT - bit.ly/jun2014-scratch-meetup
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Maker: Adolf Miethe (1862-1927)
Born: Germany
Active: Germany
Medium: dry plate negative
Size: 7.1" x 9.4"
Location:
Object No. 2017.338
Shelf: F-3.5
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Notes: 3 glass-plate negatives, size 18 x 24 cm, exposed with variable filters (blue, green, red). Adolf Miethe (born 25 April 1862 in Potsdam, died 5 May 1927 in Berlin) was a German scientist, lens designer, photochemist, photographer, author and educator. He co-invented the first practical photographic flash and made important contributions to the progress of practical color photography. Miethe was the designer of a camera for color photography, the first photographic product made by the Berlin cabinetmaker Wilhelm Bermpohl. Introduced to the public in 1903, it produced sets of three separate black-and-white images on glass plates by making a series of three photographs of the subject through red, green and blue color fliters, a method of color photography first proposed by James Clerk Maxwell. These were used to reconstitute the full original range of color by projecting transparent positives made from them through similar filters and exactly superimposing the images on the projection screen (additive color), or by making three prints consisting of transparent pigment or dye images in the complementary colors and superimposing those to make a single full-color transparency or print on paper (subtractive color). They were also used to prepare printing plates for illustrating books, periodicals and other mechanically printed media, the only form in which early color photographs were likely to be seen by the general public. There were a number of technical issues with the system, including the relatively long time required to make each sequence of three exposures and the difficulty of correctly balancing them to obtain accurate color values under different lighting conditions. In 1901, Miethe had introduced "Ethyl Red", a sensitizing dye that greatly improved the characteristics of panchromatically sensitized photographic emulsions, which in turn obviated the very long exposures previously needed to photograph red-filtered images, simplified color filter design, and generally cleared the path for future progress. Miethe's innovations provided the technological foundation used by such photographic pioneers as the Russian Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, who studied with Miethe for several weeks in 1902. (source: Wikipedia).
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Leave No Trace Trainer Liz Mahan joined Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Conservation Biologist Bill Hogseth and Wildlife Biologist Harvey Halvorsen as guest educators. Photo by Tina Shaw/USFWS.
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .