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Join UDC's quarterly Community-Campus Task Force Meeting virtually at https://universityofdc.webex.com/universityofdc/j.php?MTID=m16c9b998be4b7552e2e251db77a44a76 Meeting number: 2630 274 8709 Password: 2tMryXJtX67 Or join by video system Dial [email protected] You can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number. Or join by phone +1-415-655-0003 United States Toll Access code: 263 027 48709
Prospective parents are invited to attend a virtual open house tour. You'll have the opportunity to meet the principal, see pictures of the school, and ask questions about Murch. Learn […]
Join Rock Creek Conservancy, the National Park Service, and Summer Fellow Ruth Wielgosz to learn about the frogs and toads of Rock Creek and their significance for the health of […]
Join Rock Creek Conservancy for a tree identification and nature walk at our Broad Branch restoration site in Rock Creek Park. Learn about the natural and mythic importance of trees, […]
Exploring the Sky is a joint public observing program between the National Capital Astronomers and the National Park Service. They supply the telescopes and you supply the eyes! Meet in […]
Exploring the Sky is a joint public observing program between the National Capital Astronomers and the National Park Service. They supply the telescopes and you supply the eyes! Meet in […]
Exploring the Sky is a joint public observing program between the National Capital Astronomers and the National Park Service. They supply the telescopes and you supply the eyes! Meet in […]
The Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL) invites you to join astrobiologist, mineralogist, and author Dr. Robert M. Hazen, for a special presentation entitled, “Minerals: Earth’s Ultimate Time Capsules.” The free public lecture will take place on December 8, 2022, at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Broad Branch Road Campus in NW Washington, DC and […]
February 27th at 7 p.m., the artistic director of the DC Jazz Festival will lead a panel discussion on the book, Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers […]
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Save the date for the first-ever Mid-Atlantic Grain Fair and Conference with Friends of Peirce Mill and UDC. Grain Fair: Sunday, October 22, 10:00am to 4:00pm at Peirce Mill Grain Conference: Monday, October 23 at the University of the District of Columbia
The next Carnegie Planets Neighborhood Lecture is all about the moon. By the end of this decade, humans should once again walk on the lunar surface. Dr. Stephen Parman will review our current understanding of how the Moon formed and its evolutionary journey. We will hear about NASA’s visionary plans for lunar exploration in the […]
April 20th 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Learn about the remarkable life of William Beckett, who was once the enslaved manager of Joshua Peirce’s nursery business on Linnaean Hill, now Rock Creek Park headquarters. New evidence reveals that Beckett was also Peirce’s son; his mother was an enslaved woman named Mary Beckett. Friends of Peirce Mill […]
City planners and developers who wanted to make Tenleytown a whites-only enclave displaced a Black middle-class community where Fort Reno Park stands today. "The Reno Community" is a program presented by Jackson-Reed High School students and Assistant Principal Marc Minsker in association with "Undesign the Redline." They will discuss how student engagement in local history […]