Robin Hopkins and her research team have successfully demonstrated a method for measuring the strength of selection in favor of reproductive isolation in Phlox drummondii, helping scientists end a long and frustratingly difficult history of measuring reproductive isolation in wildflowers....

Graduate student, Maude Baldwin (Edwards Lab) led an international team of scientists in researching how hummingbids evolved to prefer nectar when other birds lack the ability to perceive sweetness. The ground-breaking study published in Science is covered in...

At nearly 100 feet long and weighing as much as 170 tons, the blue whale is the largest creature on the planet, and by far the heaviest living thing ever seen on Earth. So there’s no way it could have anything in common with the tiniest fish larvae, which are mere millimeters in length and tip the scales at a fraction of a gram, right?...

Two months after handing over the reins of the College to Rakesh Khurana, former interim Dean of the College, Donald H. Pfister is taking full advantage of the freedom afforded by his sabbatical this academic year. Full Story

The Sabeti lab's work sequencing the Ebola genome to provide further insight into the outbreak featured in the Boston Globe.

Congratulations to graduating senior Georgia Shelton, Brian Farrell Lab, awarded the Hoopes Prize for her senior thesis, "The Biodiversity of the Bees at the Arnold Arboretum." 

Joe Roman awarded 2014-2015 Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology. The fellowship is awarded to an individual who will engage in scientific study and work in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

Andrew Richardson and research associate, Trevor Keenan (Richardson Lab) worked with seven U.S. institutions studying eastern United States forests and found signs of spring growth was dramatically earlier. Read more about the paper published in ...

Andrew Richardson's work recording nature's color signals to understand the feedback between plants and a changing climate is featured in Discover Magazine. 

Hopi Hoekstra named one of five Harvard College Professors honored for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Read more.

Findings by Postdoctoral Fellow, Mary C. Stoddard (Edwards lab) and colleagues from the University of Cambridge were published in the Journal Nature Communications "The ability of Common Cuckoos to mimic the appearance of many of their hosts' eggs has been known for centuries. The astonishing finding here is that hosts can fight back against cuckoo mimicry by evolving...

Peter Girguis opened his lab to three high school interns as part of a new collaboration between Harvard and Cambridge Rindge and Latin. "We've been able to give students exposure to a research lab and allow them to experience the joy of discovery, innovation, and the challenges associated with it," said Girguis. Read more.

Andrew H. Knoll is one of seven distinguished scholars receiving honorary degrees from The University of Chicago during the 519th Convocation on Saturday, June 14 on the Main Quadrangle. Full story.

A team of researchers, led by Peter Girguis, have demonstrated that the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris can use natural conductivity to pull electrons from minerals located deep in soil and sediment while remaining at the surface, where it absorbs the sunlight needed to produce energy. Read more.

Elizabeth Wolkovich -- an authority on plant phenology, or the timing of natural life cycle events, and how those may be affected by climate change -- offered an insider's view to The Gazette of the slow-blooming spring and how it fits into the puzzle of past and future climate change.