By Carolyn Carlins

Summer Camp Recap - is our weekly seasonal segment featuring our summer camp programs. This is the place for camp parents to find pictures of their campers in action and see all the fun things we did all week. It’s also a...

By Emily Kalnicky, Director of Science Education and Research; Jordyn Melino, Exhibit Coordinator

We started our day with a visit to the National Botanical Garden, an educational and research-based garden with collections of endemic Cuban plants along with Asian, African and desert collections. In the mid-1960s, Fidel Castro...

By Emily Kalnicky, Director of Science Education and Research; Jordyn Melino, Exhibit Coordinator

As part of the three-year planning and design process behind our upcoming Tropical Forest exhibit, Dr. Emily Kalnicky and Jordyn Melino are traveling to Cuba to study first-hand the region’s biodiversity hotspots, natural...

By Lorren Kezmoh, Outreach Coordinator, Phipps Science Education and Research

A resource of Biophilia: Pittsburgh, #bioPGH is a weekly blog and social media series that aims to encourage both children and adults to reconnect with nature and enjoy what each of our distinctive seasons has to offer. From the...

By Sahar Arbab

Congratulations to all of our 2015-2016 Fairchild Challenge participants! This year brought in many fantastic entries. We saw botanical masterpieces, beautiful books of haiku, detailed blueprints, inspiring videos, and high...

By Lorren Kezmoh, Outreach Coordinator, Phipps Science Education and Research

A resource of Biophilia: Pittsburgh, #bioPGH is a weekly blog and social media series that aims to encourage both children and adults to reconnect with nature and enjoy what each of our distinctive seasons has to offer. From the...