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October 14, 2020
Inspired by its 2021 exhibition Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum is organizing a symposium that explores citizen science as...
October 7, 2020
Sometimes a project arrives in the conservation lab as a mystery. It might be damaged, so in order for the cataloguers and librarians to safely...
September 29, 2020
This summer I spent my time as an Experiential Fellow with the Center for Digital Scholarship cleaning and organizing James Madison’s meteorological dataset for the...
September 29, 2020
Who made climate records in early America? This question drew me to work with the Madison meteorological records this summer as Martin L. Levitt Fellow...
September 25, 2020
The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg was elected to the APS in 2006 as a Resident member in Class 5. She attended two Meetings, participating in...
September 23, 2020
The American Philosophical Society (APS) is pleased to announce a new $200,000 grant it has received from the National Science Foundation’s Dynamic Language Infrastructure program...
September 16, 2020
Philadelphia, PA, September 4, 2020 – With an eye towards the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding in 2026, the American Philosophical Society (APS), in...
September 16, 2020
In the summer of 2020, my research at the APS as a Curatorial Intern, has been focused on the effects of climate on the human...