From 1987 until 1992, he was president and chief executive officer of the Air Safety Foundation of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Taiwan's Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics has joined the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory as a partner in the unique Submillimeter Array project now being constructed on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. An agreement signed in Honolulu June 17 by Secretary I. Michael Heyman and Dr. Yuan-Tseh Lee, president of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan, links the research units of their respective organizations in a scientific collaboration that promises new insights on questions of star birth, galaxy formation and the physics of distant quasars. The Smithsonian recently began a new Electronic Classroom Partnership under the Natural Partners Initiative of the National Museum of Natural History. The Electronic Classroom is a collaboration among the Museum of Natural History, the National Zoo, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Mississippi State University, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Stennis Space Center, the Council of Great City Schools, BellSouth Corp., AMP Inc., U.S. West Communications Inc., Pacific Bell, Spring Communications Co., the Peace Corps, Ball State University and the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command.
Museum director dies.
D.C. She had undergone emergency surgery a week earlier for a brain aneurysm. She joined the Smithsonian in February 1983. Highly respected among museum directors throughout the world, Williams oversaw the Museum of African Art's five inaugural exhibitions in 1987 and more than 20 other exhibitions of traditional and modern art. During her tenure, the museum acquired 845 works. Aerospace buffs who want to meet others with similar interests or find more information on their favorite topics can tap into a new World Wide Web service that will link them together.