October

Environmental Research Consortium With Lacawac Sanctuary

October 24, 2013
Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and Drexel University today announced an agreement to form an environmental research and education consortium at Lacawac Sanctuary, a popular National Natural Landmark and ecological field research station in the Pocono Mountains.
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Are We Prepared for Another Hurricane Sandy? Disaster Prevention Expert Available to Comment

October 16, 2013

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Authors Toni Morrison and Rita Dove to Join Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate Sonia Sanchez at Drexel

October 15, 2013
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Lauren Sheppard Co-op

October 10, 2013
Drexel senior Lauren Sheppard is working part-time at Philadelphia's ARAMARK after completing a co-op there. She's a long way from where she was four years ago, when she thought her future would take her South.
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Drexel Scientist Studies Hurricane Sandy Impact on NJ Coastal Wetlands One Year Later

October 07, 2013
In a stroke of good luck, Drexel's Dr. Tracy Quirk captured detailed measurements of water level and salinity at a range of coastal wetland sites, even as they were overtaken by Hurricane Sandy. After the storm, she began working on an intensive year-long project, funded by the National Science Foundation, to evaluate ecosystem processes in New Jersey’s salt marshes before, during, and for a year following Hurricane Sandy. Quirk is beginning to analyze findings from the study now.
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Literary Death Match

October 07, 2013
Literary Death Match is a traveling series of author’s readings infused with reality-show-style competition and humor. When it comes to Philadelphia, it’s produced by the Painted Bride Quarterly magazine housed at Drexel.
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Longline Fishery in Costa Rica Kills Thousands of Sea Turtles and Sharks

October 02, 2013
The second-most-common catch on Costa Rica’s longline fisheries in the last decade was not a commercial fish species. It was olive ridley sea turtles.
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