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Help Us Restore the Drama of the Diorama on #GivingTuesday

Academy of Natural Sciences

Each of the 37 incredible dioramas on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences is a valuable tool to engage our visitors and spark a lasting connection to the natural world. This experience sparked a passion for the natural sciences that has lasted a lifetime.

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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. and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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Willistown Conservation Trust Publishes Comprehensive State Of Our Streams Report In Chester, Delaware Counties

PA Environment Daily

The Watershed Protection Program was established in 2017 through a generous grant from William Penn Foundation and a strong partnership with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Every four weeks, the team visited each of the ten sites to take in-stream measurements and collect samples for analysis in the lab.

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Eyeballs and Glass, Cleaned and Polished

Academy of Natural Sciences

Despite the advent of television and the Internet, the dioramas still provide an excellent opportunity to experience magnificent animals and recreated natural habitats up close. To read about our major renovations to the Takin and Gorilla dioramas in 2018, visit the diorama renovation page. Images by John Hutelmyer and Bruce Tepper.

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Preparing for a Warmer Wetter Philadelphia

Academy of Natural Sciences

In 2018, Esperanza and the City’s Office of Sustainability partnered and kicked off the Beat the Heat Hunting Park project. The Hunting Park neighborhood faces some of the most extreme heat throughout the City of Philadelphia despite various tree planting efforts over the years.

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Fighting algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence

Physics World

of all undergraduate students in 2018, but only 1.7% They include the mathematician Cathy O’Neil, who wrote Weapons of Math Destruction in 2016 about her work on data-driven biases and who in 2018 founded a consultancy to work privately with companies and audit their algorithms. of all physics undergraduate students were Black women.

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Celebrating Latin and Hispanic Heritage in the Sciences at the Academy

Academy of Natural Sciences

In 2018, I became the co-chair of the diversity, belonging and equity committee of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and along with a group of likeminded people and the other co-chair, Rayna Bell, we were able to make changes to the society to make it more inclusive and more open.

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