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Chief Learning and Engagement Officer

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

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