These images are solely for use by the working press to illustrate a story about the Academy of Natural Sciences. All other potential uses must be cleared through the Communications Office.

Click thumbnails to view at high resolution. (Opens a new window.)

Lights Out Philadelphia

• 
  This large group of dead birds resulted from Philly window strikes one day in fall 2020.
  Credit: Stephen Maciejewski
• 
  Rows of bird specimens in the Ornithology Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
  Credit: ANS
• 
  Northern Routh-winged Swallows
  Credit: George Armistead
• 
  Peregrine Falcon in flight at Philadelphia City Hall
  Credit: George Armistead
• 
  Black-throated Blue Warbler
  Credit: Stephen Maciejewski
• 
  Cardinal
  Credit: Stephen Maciejewski
• 
  Magnolia Warbler
  Credit: Stephen Maciejewski

President and CEO Scott Cooper, PhD

• 
  Scott Cooper, PhD, took over as president and CEO of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in mid-December 2017.

Women in Natural Sciences

• 
  WINS students participate in a forensics workshop.
• 
  WINS student helps catalog shells in the Academy’s Malacology Collection of 10 million shells.

Ruth Patrick

• 
  Dr. Ruth Patrick examines diatom slides at the Academy of Natural Sciences in the 1940s.
  Credit: ANSP Archives coll. 457
• 
  Dr. Ruth Patrick (fourth from left) and the team she assembled in 1948 to examine the health of Conestoga River in Lancaster County, Pa.
  Credit: ANSP Archives coll. 457
• 
  Dr. Ruth Patrick, in her signature pith helmet, collecting organisms from a stream; circa 1970
  Credit: ANSP Archives coll. 457
• 
  Dr. Ruth Patrick in the 1980s
  Credit: ANSP