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May

  • Co-op Profile-Anna Gourlay

    May 20, 2013

    Environmental science pre-junior Anna Gourlay wasn’t looking to go international for her first co-op experience, but somehow she ended up camping in Mongolia.

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  • Academy of Natural Sciences to Guide Coordinated Region-Wide Watershed Protection

    May 20, 2013

    The Academy of Natural Sciences has received a major grant from the William Penn Foundation to support watershed protection and restoration in the Delaware watershed.

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  • Green Roof Javits Center

    May 16, 2013

    In what is estimated to be one of the largest green retrofitting projects in U.S. history, a makeover of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is underway in New York City. The cost of the transformation is on the order of $463 million. While the effects that the green technology will have on the massive convention center and its surrounding environment are not yet known, they will, however, be closely monitored by a team of engineers from Drexel University and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

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  • New Historical Marker Marks the Spot Where the Academy of Natural Sciences Was Founded in 1812

    May 15, 2013

    State and local officials gathered this week in the oldest part of the city to dedicate a historical marker near the site of the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences two centuries ago.

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