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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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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. David Velinsky standing on site at Barnegat Bay with a core barrel.

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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. 57% | Percent growth of the Academy’s endowment between 2011 and 2021. ~60

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PennFuture Announces Winners Of Celebrating Women In Conservation Awards From Southeast PA

PA Environment Daily

She came to Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership in 2011, after serving as the senior district staff member for Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz. . -- Woman of the Watershed: Julie Slavet, Philadelphia County - Julie has 40 years of experience in building organizations and serving communities.

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Fighting algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence

Physics World

In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. Joy Lisi Rankin.