Word: conservationism
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The award is given for achievement in conservation and environmental protection.
Over the past century, the Fogg has frequently found itself needing to expand, and the pressure to do so has always come from within. Starting from the beginning, Harvard's curators and museum directors have searched out more advanced conservation techniques and stronger collections.
The two also initiated scientific research into chemical composition of materials, founding the Straus Conservation Center in 1928 with the help of a staff chemist. Their methods of teaching conservation became the model all, over the country and inspired later directors to found a program for the teaching of such...
President Neil L. Rudenstine has a clear vision of the museums' priorities. "The needs of Harvard's art museums at this time are substantial: to maintain our collection properly; to provide proper space and endowment for the Straus Center for Conservation; to create a critically important climate-control system for...
When the sea-cucumber season began in October 1994, things quickly got out of hand. Dozens of fishing boats appeared, drawn by the high price the sluglike creatures fetch in Asia. According to Jack Grove, a Florida-based naturalist and photographer and founder of the nonprofit group Conservation Network International...