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Making a Splash: A ‘Downstream’ Opening Celebration

Friday, September 17, 2021 | 5:00 p.m. EDT

Join us as we celebrate the opening of Downstream, a new exhibition that explores more than 200 years of water analysis and water protection.
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Fit To Be Dyed

Distillations Article

Tie-dyeing—or “tied dyeing,” as it was more commonly known before the 1960s—is an ancient art practiced across continents and cultures.
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Illustrations of typhosus and e. coli

Disease in the Water: Typhoid Fever

Thursday, September 30 | 4:00 p.m. EDT

Join us for a Varsity Tutors virtual class to learn about typhoid fever in Philadelphia and what politicians did to protect residents from it.
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Model of Delaware River Basin, 1964.

WHYY Features Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition


Research curator Jesse Smith explains how people could see, smell, and taste contaminants in the waterways throughout Philadelphia in the late 1700s.
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Aquaporin water channels

Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture

Thursday, September 30, 2021 | 6:00 p.m. EDT

Nobel laureate and medical scientist Peter Agre will present “Aquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Malaria.”
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