Information Age (1970 - present)
Philadelphia Science Festival

Philadelphia Science Festival

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Museum display of alchemical objects

CBS3: Science History Institute Blends History of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Sciences
Media Coverage
Historical photo of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works

How Philadelphia’s Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City

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Image of microphone for podcast recording

Gettingsmart.com: 100 Podcasts You Should Check Out
Media Coverage
Two children stare at cellphone in front of smokestacks

Choosing a Better High-Tech Future

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Neodymium magnet

Forbes: Rare Earth Minerals Could Be Sourced Through Outdated Smartphones, Batteries, Wind Turbines
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Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: San Francisco Bay Area

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Color woodcut of two women on desolate shore

Searching for Schizophrenia

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Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: Boston/Cambridge

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Illustration highlighting the rare earth elements in the periodic table

Book Club: The Risks and Rewards of Rare Earth Elements

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Two brain scans: one seemingly healthy one and one afflicted by alzheimer's

The Alzheimer’s Copernicus Problem

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Mr. Wizard on TV set with children

Science on TV: An Interview with Ingrid Ockert

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Silhouette of a vulture in front of a low sun.

Poison Pill: The Mysterious Die-Off of India’s Vultures

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Joseph Priestley Society: Robert Fry

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Neither Fish nor Fowl: The Growth of Alternatives to Animal-Derived Food

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Illustration of microbes in the human body

Can You Trust Your Gut? Using the Microbiome to Cure Disease

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Photo of Anton Chekhov with glasses and hat

The Death of Anton Chekhov, Told in Proteins

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Tollund Man

Bodies in the Bog: The Lindow Mysteries

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Group of Beckman Instruments scientists standing in a lab and smiling at the camera

Disability and the Myth of the Independent Scientist

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miners hauling electronics that are causing pollution

Rare Earths: The Hidden Cost to Their Magic

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Periodic table with cellphones depicting US and China flags

Green Tech Media: A Strategic Approach to Rare Earth Elements as Global Trade Tensions Flare
Media Coverage
Jesse Gelsinger, 18, in an undated family photo

The Why: The Philadelphia Tragedy that Changed Gene Therapy
Media Coverage
Soft-focus photo of a vintage microphone and headphones

How Oral History Opens Up the Past

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Jesse Gelsinger photo illustration

The Death of Jesse Gelsinger, 20 Years Later

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Museum display of Science and Disability exhibit

WHYY: New Philly Exhibit Celebrates Lives, Contributions of Scientists with Disabilities
Media Coverage
Fire in the Cuyahoga River with a firefighter boat blasting water

The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

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Vaughn Bell poses with her work Village Green.

Sensing Change Exhibition
Museum
Chao Symposium

T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation

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Drawing of outer space and planets from an advertisement from the Hercules Powder Company

Book Club: A Universe of Dark Matter

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Jennifer Doudna at the 2018 Ullyot lecture

Interview: Jennifer Doudna

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Cow photo illustration

High Steaks at the Border

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Painting of William and Caroline Herschel standing in a study, surrounded by star charts and telescopes

Making Space for Women in Astronomy

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Suburban house with electric car in driveway

Mashable: Do Something Good for Earth Day
Media Coverage
Attendees at our monthly WikiSalon

Technical.ly Philadelphia: Get a Primer on Fact Checking and Digital Literacy from this Wikipedian in Residence
Media Coverage
Innovation Day Poster Session

Innovation Day 2019
Visit
Photo collage of JFK

Making the Deserts Bloom

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Close-up view of valves, pipes, and fittings

Whose Knowledge Counts? Scientists with Cognitive Differences

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Armageddon’s Fingerprints

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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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The Parasites in Our Past

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Jennifer Doudna gives the 2018 Ullyot Lecture

Book Club: Cracking Creation with Jennifer Doudna

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Harry versus the Volcano

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Family Practice

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Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Saving Old Movies

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Image of microscope from Robert Hooke's "Micrographia : or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses," 1665.

Through the Lens of Disability

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Roger Eadley-Pryor takes a guided kayak tour of the Schuylkill River led by Drexel chemistry professor Pete DeCarlo and University of Pennsylvania environmental humanities professor Bethany Wiggin.

Imagining a Way Forward

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and meeting chairs

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Innovation Day 2018
Visit

Opioids’ Devastating Return

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Gone to the Dogs

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Constructing Life

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Styrofoam, a Practical and Problematic Creation

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Old Brew, New Brew

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Sweating Blood

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Mary Mark Ockerbloom

WikiSpeaks: What It Means to Be a Wikipedian in Residence

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

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RHex marches up a dune in Pismo Beach, California, carrying a mechanical sensor that scrapes the dune’s surface to detect how much force is needed for the wind to pick up grains of sand.

Thinking on Your Feet—or with Them

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Life Sciences Pioneers Dinners
Give
A detail of the inside cover art from the 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Book Club: Frankenstein in the 21st Century

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Woman and penguins in Antarctica

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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The Mystery of Yellow Rain

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
Research

Tummy Trouble

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A Study In Scarlet

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Serious Fun

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Hard Work and Happenstance

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Second Chances

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Cat Craze

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Carleen Hutchins: Rogue Luthier

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An Interview with the Field Museum’s Emily Graslie

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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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Anticipating the Future: Historical Narratives, Imagination, and Innovation
Visit
Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability
Research
Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation
Research
Two cups of coffee to-go

Chemistry in Your Coffee Mug

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The Elements of Fiction

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Vintage poster of people watching TV

Sci-Fi Radio Drama

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Philippe Mercier’s The Sense of Smell (1744–1747).

The Scent of a Molecule

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Vintage margarine ad

Butter vs. Margarine

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Stradivari and the Search for Brilliance

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Start Talking Science participants

From STEM to STEAM: An Interview with Marion Leary

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Concrete Solutions

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Data from Disaster

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How to Mine an Asteroid

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Portrait of child, grandmother and two cats

Grandmothers Matter

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Portrait of Ada Lovelace

Labor of Lovelace: A Children’s Introduction to a Programming Giant

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A Legacy of Listening

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Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

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9/11 memorial column

Conserving the Stories They Tell

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ExhibitLab
Museum

Science and Disability

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Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

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A History of Violence

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A group of Amish people standing in a field

High-Tech and Amish

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