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Chief Learning and Engagement Officer

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  Niki Ciccotelli Stewart in April 2019 became the first Chief Learning and Engagement Officer at the Academy. A N.J. native, she had helped build the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas.

President and CEO Scott Cooper, PhD

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  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

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

Ruth Patrick

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  Dr. Ruth Patrick examines diatom slides at the Academy of Natural Sciences in the 1940s.
  Credit: ANSP Archives coll. 457
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  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
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  Dr. Ruth Patrick, in her signature pith helmet, collecting organisms from a stream; circa 1970
  Credit: ANSP Archives coll. 457
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  Dr. Ruth Patrick in the 1980s
  Credit: ANSP

A Glorious Enterprise 

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  Cover: A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science.

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  Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud, authors of A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science.