Congratulations to Pardis Sabeti for receiving an honorary degree from Amherst College during its 194th Commencement exercises. Full story.

Congratulations to Pardis Sabeti for being selected one of twenty-six new HHMI Investigators. Full story.

Graduate student, Maude Baldwin (Edward's Lab) spent many months preparing the permanent exhibition, "Birds of the World" which opened last fall in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Full story.

Benjamin de Bivort's two latest studies in PNAS on genetically identical fruit flies raised under the same conditions creates a biological map of what makes individuals unique. Full story....

OEB graduate students, Lenora Bittleson (Pierce Lab) and Shane Campbell-Staton (Losos Lab) are two of the seven graduate students chosen to present their work at the Harvard Horizons Symposium. Full story.

Graduate student, Shane Campbell-Staton, (Losos's lab) discusses natural selection during Harvard Horizons Symposium. Full story.

Congratulations to Andrew Knoll for being elected a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society. Full story.

Brian Farrell makes a home fit for a king in Memorial Hall for peregrine falcons. Full story.

Congratulations to Scott Edwards for being elected into the National Academy of Sciences. Full story.

The work of Andrew Biewener and his former postdoc, David Williams, to understand how birds navigate a cluttered environment could open the door to new ways to program drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles to avoid similar obstacles. Full story.

Pardis Sabeti named as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People for her critically important work during the Ebola epidemic. Full story.

Elizabeth Wolkovich researches the impact of climate change on vineyards. Full story.

Congratulations to OEB graduate students, Caitlin Baker (Giribet Lab), Julia Cosgrove (Giribet Lab) and Jessica Panzarino (Girguis Lab) who were awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program fellowships.

Prof. L. Mahadevan and Andrés Concha (former Harvard postdoc) reveal the secret to the velvet worm's split-second slime attack in the latest issue of Nature Communications. Full story and...

Postdoctoral Fellow, David Williams, and Andrew Biewener report in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences how pigeons dodge obstacles when navigating tight spots. Full story and...