Congratulations to Alyssa Hernandez (Brian Farrell, Advisor) who has successfully defended her PhD and is now officially Dr. Hernandez!

Congratulations to Phil Fahn-Lai (Andrew Biewener and Stephanie Pierce, Co-Advisors) who has successfully defended their PhD and is now officially Dr. Fahn-Lai!

Professor L. Mahadevan, OEB and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been named a 2021 Simons Investigator.

Simons Investigators are outstanding theoretical scientists who receive a stable base of research support from the foundation, enabling them to undertake the long-term study of fundamental questions.

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Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Paula Rodriguez Flores (Giribet Lab) awarded LinnéSys: Systematics Research Fund for her project, "Speciation and connectivity in deep-sea cosmopolitan and vicariant squat lobsters." The awarded is funded through the Linnean Society of London and the Systematics Association.

In a paper published in Geology, Javier Ortega-Hernandez and colleagues from the University of New England, The Natural History Museum, and Pomona College report a unique case of an exceptionally preserved nervous system in a 310 million-year-old fossil horseshoe crab from the...

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Molly Edwards (Elena Kramer, Advisor) recipient of the Katherine Esau Award at the Botany 2021 conference. Molly was selected for her presentation, "A developmental and transcriptional framework for pollinator-driven evolutionary transitions in petal spur morphology in Aquilegia (columbine)."

The...

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Dwayne Evans (Harvard Medical School Biological and Biomedical Sciences PhD Program, Cassandra Extavour, Advisor) awarded a 2021 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship.

The fellowship, administered by the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, seeks to increase the...

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Dwayne Evans (Harvard Medical School Biological and Biomedical Sciences PhD Program) and his advisor Prof. Cassandra Extavour awarded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) 2021 Gilliam Fellowship.

The Gilliam Fellowship is awarded to adviser-student pairs as part of a...

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Congratulations to Nick Herrmann (David Haig Lab) who has successfully defended his PhD and is now officially Dr. Herrmann!

It is with profound sadness that we share the news that OEB Professor Richard (Dick) Lewontin died on Sunday, July 4th, he was 92. Professor Lewontin is considered one of the most brilliant population geneticists and pioneered the study of genetic variation among humans and other animals. He was a much loved and respected member of the department as well as more broadly at Harvard and, indeed, worldwide.

Professor Lewontin retired in 2003, but remained active until recent years. He...

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Richard Knecht (Ortega-Hernández Lab) awarded the 2021 Arete Fellowship.

Harvard Effective Altruism established the Arete Fellowship to equip Harvard students with the knowledge to do good in the world more effectively and the tools to think critically about their career ambitions. Arete Fellows join Harvard Effective Altruism for a 9 week fellowship based on weekly readings, discussions, socials, writing, research, and more.

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The bud scales of resting buds (buds that form at the end of a growth season which lie dormant until the next growth season) of temperate trees are thought to provide essential winter protection. However naked buds (buds without bud scales) are often considered rare occurrences in temperate climates.

In a study in New Phytologist PhD candidate Kristel Schoonderwoerd (Friedman Lab) and Ned...

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Misha Gupta (Desai Lab) awarded Fellowship for Students from India. The award is granted to highly accomplished students pursuing studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The fellowships are funded by the government of India in recognition of the accomplishments of Harvard Professor of Economics and Philosophy and Thomas W. Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen and his work for social and economic justice across the globe. It also recognizes the work of Harvard’s South Asia Initiative toward establishing Harvard as a locus...

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Congratulations to IB Concentrator Skylah Reis (Friedman Lab) recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. 

The Erasmus Mundus Programme provides EU-funded scholarships for Third Country...

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Wendy Valencia (N Pierce Lab) recipient of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation's Joan Mosenthan DeWind Award.