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                    -                 Search Press Releases          SearchReset-  Anacostia Community Museum Announces Summer HoursExtended Weekend Hours Begin July 8  06.28.2023Anacostia Community Museum 
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Briana Pobiner
Humans’ Evolutionary Relatives Butchered One Another 1.45 Million Years AgoCut Marks on a Fossil Leg Bone Belonging to a Relative of Modern Humans Were Made by Stone Tools and Could Be Evidence of Cannibalism  06.26.2023Natural History MuseumResearch News 
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Afro-Cuban American musician Bobi Céspedes performed at the Folklife Festival in 2016 and returns for an evening concert Friday, July 7. Photo by Joe Furgal, Smithsonian Institution
Evening Concerts at the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival  06.23.2023Center for Folklife and Cultural HeritagePublic Programs 
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Credit: Luciano Candisani
Marine Protected Areas Improve Health, Wealth of Nearby CommunitiesNew Smithsonian-Led Study Shows Protecting Marine Life Can Support Multiple U.N. Sustainable Development Goals in Mesoamerican Reef  06.22.2023Environmental Research CenterResearch News 
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Courtesy Cauleen Smith
“Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies” Explores the Intersection of Video and Music by Today’s Leading Contemporary ArtistsExhibition Includes Recent Major Acquisitions  06.15.2023American Art MuseumExhibitions 
-  National Postal Museum Will Host Guest Artist ProgramRenowned Stamp Artist John Para To Participate in Six Summer Events  06.15.2023Postal MuseumPublic Programs 
-  Smithsonian Kicks Off the Start of Summer With “Solstice Saturday”  06.13.2023Public Programs 
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After five days of public voting and just over 24,000 votes, the baby western lowland gorilla at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is named Zahra [ZAH-rah], which means “beautiful flower” in Swahili. (Photo by Becky Malinsky, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
Her Name Is ZahraFollowing Public Vote, the Western Lowland Gorilla at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Receives Her Name  06.09.2023Conservation Biology InstituteNational ZooPublic Programs 
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Credit: Gouverneur Kemble Warren by an unidentified daguerreotypist. Half-plate daguerreotype with applied color,

c. 1850. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Purchase funded by the photographyacquisitions endowment by the Joseph L. and Emily K. Gidwitz Memorial Foundation
National Portrait Gallery Presents “Duty, Honor, Country: Antebellum Portraits of West Pointers”On View June 23–June 9, 2024  06.07.2023Portrait GalleryExhibitions 
-  Jessica Diamond’s Meditation on Life To Be Explored in Text-Based Exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenArtist Follows Laurie Anderson and Barbara Kruger in Transforming  Gallery Walls With Text-Based Work July 14–June 2, 2024  06.06.2023Hirshhorn MuseumExhibitions 
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Caravan of camels moving across the edge of the Chalbi Desert in Marsabit County, Kenya. (Photo by James Hassell, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute).
Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and Kenyan Partners Awarded $5 Million Grant To Prevent Emerging Diseases in Northern KenyaFive-Year Study of Three Animal-Borne Pathogens Aims  To Enhance Local and Global Health Security  06.06.2023Conservation Biology InstituteNational ZooResearch NewsAdministrative News 
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Photo by Victoria Pickering, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives
2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Seeks Volunteers  06.06.2023Center for Folklife and Cultural HeritagePublic Programs 
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Primate keepers—with help from the western lowland gorilla troop—revealed that the baby gorilla born May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is female. Pictured are Calaya and her newborn as well as Moke and Mandara. (Photo by Jen Zoon, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
The Public Can Help Name a Baby Western Lowland Gorilla at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute  06.05.2023National ZooPublic Programs 
-           The National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall      Smithsonian Names Architect for the Bezos Learning Center  06.05.2023Air and Space MuseumEducation News 
-  Anacostia Community Museum Brings Back Its Iconic Juneteenth FestivalFeaturing Fly Zyah, Dev Duff, Too Much Talent Band and The Experience Band  06.01.2023Anacostia Community MuseumPublic Programs 
-  New Smithsonian Exhibition Examines the Cultural Nature of Cellphones“Cellphone: Unseen Connections” Will Allow Visitors To Contemplate the  Intersection of Technology, Nature and Culture at Their Fingertips  05.30.2023Natural History MuseumExhibitions 
-  4-H and Smithsonian Partner To Expand Educational Opportunities for TeensPublic Institutions Collaborate on Civic and Cultural  Experiences Benefitting America’s Youth  05.30.2023Traveling Exhibition ServiceEducation News 
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Left: Newborn gorilla cradled by mother Calaya, a 20-year-old female western lowland gorilla. She gave birth to her second offspring May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. (Photo by Valerie Schultz, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)

Right: Calaya, a 20-year-old female western lowland gorilla, gave birth to her second offspring May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.(Photo by Skip Brown, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
Western Lowland Gorilla Born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute  05.30.2023Conservation Biology InstituteNational ZooExhibitionsNew AcquisitionsAdministrative News 
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The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., welcomed three meerkat pups to mother Sadie and father Frankie in the Small Mammal House.

**Photo credit**: Ann Gutowski, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Meerkats Are Born at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute  05.24.2023National Zoo 
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The team of scientists and interns who planted BiodiversiTREE in 2013, along with roughly 100 volunteers. From left: Susan Cook-Patton, Whitney Hoot, Caitlyn Cecil, Jess Shue, John Parker, Kim Holzer and Lada Klimesova. (Credit: Susan Cook-Patton)
Tree Species Diversity Increases Likelihood of Planting SuccessResearchers and Volunteers Planted 20,000 Tree Saplings in Reforestation Experiment; Ten Years Later, the Results Are In  05.23.2023Environmental Research CenterResearch News 
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Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan, b. 1954), “The Rebel,” 1987. Hand-tinted gelatin silver print. Collection of the artist.
First Major Retrospective of Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s Work To Go on View at the National Museum of the American Indian in New YorkExhibition Confronts the Challenges of Being Indigenous and Female in the United States and Canada  05.22.2023American Indian Museum Heye CenterExhibitions 
-  First Major Retrospective for Artist Robert Houle To Go on View at the National Museum of the American IndianExhibition Celebrates More Than 50 Years of the Artist’s Work  05.19.2023American Indian MuseumExhibitions 
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The Venerable Lama Losang Samten helped introduce Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas to the West when he moved to the United States in 1988.*Photo courtesy of Losang Samten*
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Looks at Creativity and Spirituality in the U.S.  05.19.2023Center for Folklife and Cultural HeritagePublic Programs 
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The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, formed in Springfield, Missouri in 1972, perform an evening concert. *Photo by Jim Mayfield*

 

 

 
Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2023 Celebrates the Cultures of the Ozarks  05.19.2023Center for Folklife and Cultural HeritagePublic Programs 
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44¢ Surfer and Outrigger Canoe single, 1959
Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum Launches New Virtual ExhibitionComplete Collection of U.S. Postage Stamps Honoring Asian, Native Hawaiian  and Pacific Islander Americans or Their History and Culture  05.19.2023Postal MuseumExhibitions 
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Artwork by Krystal Quiles for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Exhibition Amplifying Role of Girls in History Is Hitting the Road“Girlhood (It’s complicated)” To Begin National Tour  in June at Minnetrista Museum & Gardens  05.18.2023Traveling Exhibition ServiceExhibitions 
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LP 791-18 d, illustrated here, is an Earth-size world about 90 light-years away. The gravitational tug from a more massive planet in the system, shown as a blue disk in the background, may result in internal heating and volcanic eruptions—as much as Jupiter’s moon Io, the most geologically active body in the solar system. Astronomers discovered and studied the planet using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite along with many other observatories.
Astronomers Find Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size World  05.17.2023Research News 
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Images courtesy of the subjects
Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces 2023–2024 Fellowship Appointments and Residencies  05.17.2023Education News 
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