Anna L. Fisher, Kathryn D. Sullivan and Rhea Seddon taking a break from various training exercises at a three-day water-survival school held near Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
Clockwise, from upper right: Ruth Fine (photo by Frank Stewart); Keith Haring Foundation logo, courtesy Keith Haring Foundation; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (photo by Grace Roswell)
The 2023 cohort of the Young Ambassadors Program pose with Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino Director Jorge Zamanillo (far left.) Smithsonian Institution photo.
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
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)
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 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
