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Meet Suzanne Biemiller, New Chair of the Academy’s Board of Trustees 

Academy of Natural Sciences

On March 5, the Academy of Natural Sciences Board of Trustees elected a new chair, Suzanne Biemiller. Notably, Suzanne served as policy director and First Deputy Chief of Staff to Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter from 2008 to 2014. What do you think makes the Academy of Natural Sciences special?

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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. © GIDEON MENDEL, Jeff and Tracey Waters, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK, February 2014 C-print. For more information, visit ansp.org.

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Personal Stories, Our Stories

Academy of Natural Sciences

Singh, Jawahar Nagar Srinagar Kashmir, India, October 2014 @Gideon Mendel. Jeff and Tracy Waters outside their home in Staines-Upon-Thames, England, 2014 @Gideon Mendel. By Scott Cooper, PhD, President and CEO of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. 17, 2021.

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New Species Named and Described

Academy of Natural Sciences

That makes the Academy of Natural Sciences’ description of five new species in 2021 all the more critical to understanding the natural world and inspiring everyone to care for it.

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

This coordinated approach to flood risk management followed the American Society of Civil Engineer’s call for a National Flood Risk Management Strategy (2014), which in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and other catastrophic storms, urged all levels of government in the United States to develop and align sustainable flood risk management strategies.

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James Peebles: a life in cosmology

Physics World

If the BICEP2 team’s 2014 detection of gravitational waves had turned out to be correct, would that have convinced you of inflation? I consider cosmology a good example of how natural science is done because it is relatively simple compared, say, to quantum physics. It’s different for one reason: it is my personal experience.

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Academy Scientists Make Important Discoveries

Academy of Natural Sciences

Co-authors on the publication in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia are Drexel co-ops Devon Donahue and Amanda Cramer, who worked in Ichthyology from 2014-2016 and helped collect and analyze the DNA sequence data used to help distinguish the species as new.

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