Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In his early years, he helped defend museum collections against a Smithsonian director who wanted the Smithsonian to be solely a research institute. He is best remembered today for founding the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and for his research to establish peanuts as a valuable cash crop for Black farmers.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Members receive a full year of unlimited, free admission to the museum, access to monthly members-only museum hours, special events and activities, discounts on programming, parking and Academy Shop purchases and memories that will last a lifetime! Night in the Museum. all month to shop — no museum admission necessary!

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

New research published in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution compared museum collection specimens to abundance in the wild. The research was the collaboration of 19 scientists from the United States and Europe. The researchers analyzed 1.4 Read the full story at Earth.com.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Poison Book Project is an interdisciplinary research initiative at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and the University of Delaware. Research focuses on identifying potentially toxic pigments used in bookbinding components and how to handle and store potentially toxic collections more safely.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2021

On December 7, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History announced the naming of the new mineral-- Oldsite-- after Dr. Travis Olds, the museum’s Assistant Curator of Minerals. The holotype specimen of Oldsite, or original specimen to be named, is held in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the oldest natural history museum in North America, the Academy has a long and varied history. And even with the many well-known figures, works and stories found in our phenomenal Library & Archives, there are more that need to be researched, uncovered and revealed to help shape a brighter, more equitable future.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Academy’s Malacology Collection is a priceless resource for the study of North American land and freshwater mollusks, as it holds more relevant type (or species-defining) specimens than any other. In compiling this very comprehensive work, Wagner used images of specimens in the Academy’s collection to illustrate no fewer than 142 species.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The newly named birds, insect, fish and fossil fish add to the Academy’s world-renowned scientific research and research collection of more than 19 million animal and plant specimens dating back to the institution’s founding in 1812. . Here’s an overview of the newly named species in 2021: BIRDS.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 28, 2023

Natural history museums offer amazing portals into worlds miles away from our own, and into eras from the distant past. Comprised of fossils, minerals, preserved specimens, and much more, some collections are of palatial grandeur. billion objects across 73 museums

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Along with co-discoverer and co-researcher Neil Shubin, PhD, of the University of Chicago, their work in scientifically discovering and publishing about this type-species fossil shed light on a pivotal point in the history of Earth: when life ventured onto land.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 11, 2023

A new look at decades of data from museum collections and surveys of leaf-litter ants in Florida reveals a steady decline in native ants and simultaneous increase in nonnative ants — even in protected natural areas of the state, researchers report. Read the full story from the University of Illinois.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University recently launched the Museum Innovation Fund to provide seed funding to Drexel faculty and students for projects that promote conception and rapid prototyping of innovative approaches to museum learning and engagement. They are: Dioramas of the Future: The Augmented Museum Project.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Bird-tracking products by Cellular Tracking Technologies that use cell towers, GPS, big birds, small birds, and what’s being used in research projects. Conversations With Birds is free with general museum admission and on view through Sunday, May 21. a Field Guides birding tour leader. To purchase tickets, visit our website.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2023

The City Nature Challenge was started in 2016 by the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and has grown into a global event. This 4-day bioblitz takes place around the world from April 28 through May 1, 2023 and Asbury Woods in Erie is pleased to lead the way for the Greater Erie area.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Over the spring and summer Drexel University Teaching Professor of History Lloyd Ackert, PhD , mentored a diverse group of co-op students in research projects centered on three Drexel archives and special collections. Collected here are the abstracts for each student research projected, grouped by archive.

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Frontiers

MAY 9, 2023

In a recent Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution article , Dr Laurence G Frank, a researcher at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Mpala Research Centre in Laikipia, Kenya, explored how protecting livestock can help protect endangered lions. What inspired you to become a researcher?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Adrienne Berard, Penn State News Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity’s carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. “We

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 6, 2022

Pedro Raposo is thrilled about the power of a well-kept collection. As a seasoned museum, library and archival professional — with a passion for public engagement, science and history — Raposo has had first-hand experience of a collection’s immense potential for research and storytelling, as well as inspiring positive change.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A lot has happened in the decade since the university with the dragons teamed up with the museum with the dinosaurs. Since then, many Dragons have graduated from the joint academic department created by the partners, and countless researchers and visitors have enjoyed the expansion of the Academy’s historic and world-renowned collections.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 8, 2021

1, members had the chance to experience Academy science alongside our extraordinary curators, collection managers, researchers, educators and animal ambassadors. Members’ Night is an annual family-friendly open house with engaging activities throughout the museum. On Friday, Oct. The Bug Hub was a crowd favorite.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to the generosity of Philadelphia’s Independence Seaport Museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University has recently acquired, and successfully conserved, an important piece of exploration history – the flag that was created for and used on the Peary Auxiliary Expedition to Greenland in 1894. Peary (1856-1920), a U.S.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 31, 2022

I knew of wild ass, Equus africanus , because I had grown up near Chicago where The Field Museum had one mounted in a glass display case. Fortunately, the ETYFish Project led by fish historian Christopher Scharpf has researched the origins of over 42,200 scientific names applied to fishes. Photo by Mark Sabaj/ANS.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

2023 Pennsylvania Botany Symposium Oct. 20-21 In State College [PaEN] -- Penn State’s Great Insect Fair Returns To Snider Ag Arena Sept. 30 [PaEN] -- TribLive: Mantis Makes Meal Of Pesky Spotted Lanternfly -- Courier Times: Ever Encountered The Lizards Of Levittown?

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Academy of Natural Sciences

AUGUST 4, 2022

Previously, I worked as a Fulbright Study/Research Fellow with the Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research at the Finnish Museum of Natural History of University of Helsinki and received my bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from the BEES Department at Drexel University. Tell us more about yourself. .

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 13, 2023

As the oldest natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere, the Academy of Natural Sciences’ affiliation with Drexel University is a relatively new part of its history — the partnership was formed in 2011, nearly 200 years after its 1812 founding. David Velinsky standing on site at Barnegat Bay with a core barrel. Thomas/ANS.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

On January 11, an international team of researchers announced a new fossil species of an early mammal relative named for paleontologist Dr. David S Berman, who served as curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History for 44 years. Berman, now Curator Emeritus of Vertebrate Paleontology, retired in 2014.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 14, 2022

The Museum Innovation Fund, launched in fall 2021 by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, provides funding to Drexel faculty and students for projects that promote conception and rapid prototyping of innovative approaches to museum learning and engagement.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We know relatively little about caecilians compared to frogs and salamanders — most species live underground, burrowing in the soil and leaf litter of tropical forests, making scientific collection and observation difficult. The species name honors the Academy’s Collections Manager, Ned Gilmore. The band has approved this usage.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

From these stories and many that followed, we learned how their internal scientific research and sophisticated models were directly at odds with their public-facing messages. Nor should we forget the researchers working on attribution science who have helped connect the dots from extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 6, 2022

They are now housed in the Academy’s archives, where they have joined an extraordinary collection of ornithological illustrations by some of the best wildlife painters of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Jaques also painted in color and was commissioned to create the background for one of the African dioramas in the Academy museum.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

Pennsylvania’s Conservation Heritage Museum will offer just that perspective. Work to develop the museum began about five years ago. Now-retired Game Warden Bill Bower had a huge collection of memorabilia related to conservation and the Game Commission. That led to a new wing at Middle Creek for the Heritage Museum.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

This article on the Lenape Nation’s 2022 Rising Nation River Journey on the Lenape Sipu (Delaware River) first appeared in the Allentown Morning Call on August 10, 2022 -- On Wednesday, a collection of colorful canoes appeared on the horizon of the Lenape Sipu (Delaware River) at Scott Park in Easton, growing larger and clearer by the moment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Cultural rights include the right to freedom for scientific research and creative activity, and the right to participate in cultural life. Intangible cultural heritage threatened Historic buildings, archaeological sites, museum and archive collections, and cultural landscapes are all examples of tangible cultural heritage.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

Funds raised in the Blitz will support the development of educational and training materials for use by volunteers when the Atlas begins data collection in 2024. Efforts are well underway for the kickoff of the state’s third atlas, a critical tool for conservation planning and action.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Museum collections across the world feature characteristic clothes from different time periods that showcase human history. Today, researchers envision that clothes’ functionalities could reach beyond fashion, protection and comfort to provide sophisticated biosensing and tracking capabilities.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 28, 2022

With the research shift more towards coral reef management, Aliyah is hoping to partner with Barbados to explore the techniques while also partnering with the American Museum of Natural History in New York to review some of the pieces from their 4000-piece coral fossil collection. “I You can purchase My Secret Mermaid here.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 1, 2021

There’s a through line connecting academia, the Northwest Museum of Art, dirt, X-rays, economics, racial equity, conservation and science (to name but just a few), and that through line exists because of a collaborative partnership here in Washington state. We work a lot with the UW School of Public Health. Landscape Architecture.

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