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Celebrating 10 Years of BEES With Department Head David Velinsky, PhD

Academy of Natural Sciences

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.

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PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Announce 2024 Award Winners

PA Environment Daily

Acker became fascinated by French Creek as a nontraditional adult student at Allegheny College where she graduated with honors with a BS in Environmental Science. in schools, nature-based nonprofits, urban arboretums and farms, and environmental centers. Click Here to learn more about the award winners.

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A Decade of Drexel and the Academy

Academy of Natural Sciences

After Drexel and the Academy of Natural Sciences signed an historic affiliation on Oct. 26, 2011, the two Philadelphia institutions pledged to combine their strengths to mutually expand their global scientific reputations and capabilities. 2 New Ways to Research and Study the Art of Science.

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

A unique photographic exploration of the impact of flooding on communities around the world due to climate events opens Saturday, May 1 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. The program, which launched in 2011, is a 25-year effort to install stormwater runoff-absorbing green infrastructure and improve traditional infrastructure, easing the burden on our combined sewer system and reducing combined sewer overflows.

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A Life of its Own: The Pine Barrens Project

Academy of Natural Sciences

Around 2011, with these ideas in mind, I began to think about ways to depict the Pine Barrens, a place that I had previously never been to, but whose stories kept coming my way. DSK: I started working with film in the early 2000s to experiment beyond the visual art I created before that, primarily painting and drawing.

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Remembering the Great Auk

Academy of Natural Sciences

It was paid for by private donors and installed in 2011. . Gazing forlornly out to Eldey and Geirfuglasker from Reykjanestá, Iceland, the Great Auk memorial was created by the American artist Todd McGrain as part of a series of bigger-than-life sculptures he has made of extinct birds known as “the Lost Bird Project.”

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