Ned Friedman's freshman seminar students re-created 10 of Darwin's experiments over the semester, including one that showed that worms do not hear music or anything else. Full Story.

Ned Friedman's freshman seminar students recreate 10 of Darwin's experiments over the semester, including one that shows worms do not hear music or anything else. Full Story.

Andrew Biewener and colleagues at the Concord Field Station published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing the common city pigeon, Columba...

A.W. (Fuzz) Crompton, OEB Professor Emeritus, awarded the 2011 Romer-Simpson Medal of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. The society's highest award honors sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence in the discipline of vertebrate paleontology.

Elena Kramer, in partnership with University of California, Santa Barbara, finds that columbine flowers adapt their shape to match pollinators' tongues, causing dramatic diversity. Full Story.

Andrew Richardson spoke about his research into forests and climate change as part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History lecture series on New England forests. ...

Research in the Giribet Lab mapping the genetic tree of mollusks, described in the Nov. 2 issue of the journal Nature. Full Story.

The description of three new tropical families of arachnids and a phylogeny of the suborder Laniatores by graduate student Prashant Sharma (Giribet Lab) featured on the cover of Invertebrate Systematics.

Peter Girguis spoke at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on the effects of the BP spill on deep-sea life. Full Story.

NSF-funded dragonfly research by Stacey Combes at the Concord Field Station focuses on aerial feats such as hunting and mating in mid-air.

Research on the common ancestry of birds and dinosaurs by graduate student Bhart-Anjan Bhullar (Abzhanov Lab) featured in the New Scientist magazine. 

Farish A. Jenkins, Jr. inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 1, 2011. The Academy is an international learned society dating back to the American Revolution. It elects to membership men and women of exceptional achievement, drawn from science, scholarship, business, public affairs, and the arts.

Natalie Jacewicz '13 (Losos Lab) featured in The Harvard Crimson for her research on lizards, including field work observing lizards in the Caribbean.

Hopi Hoekstra awarded the 2011 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching. A faculty committee comprised of members from across the sciences at Harvard recommends recipients based on their ability to inspire students, instill in them a passion for science, and effectively communicate complex ideas. Full Story.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rowan Barrett's, (Hoekstra Lab) research on mouse coat color and how organisms use pigmentation to adapt to their environment, is featured in the New York Times.