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The Los Angeles Service Academy provides an intensive introduction to the infrastructure and institutions of greater Los Angeles for high school juniors. The Huntington documented LASA’s investigation of the Los Angeles River and the Port of Los Angeles.

Jennifer van Saders, Carnegie-Princeton Fellow, discusses how the technique of astroseismology has revolutionized scientists’ view of the internal workings of stars.

This interdisciplinary conference takes the recent popularity of the historical novel as a starting point to explore the relationship between history and fiction. The plenary speaker, Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel (“Wolf Hall”), will appear in conversation with Mary Robertson, former Huntington chief curator of British historical manuscripts.