Congratulations to Professor Don Pfister, Danny Haelewaters (PhD '18), and Liam F. Nokes, former high school researcher in the Pfister lab, awarded Honorable Mention by the New England Botanical Society (NEBS) Fernald Award Committee awarded Honorable Mention for their study published in...
Original artwork for a recent study in Geology by PhD candidate Sarah Losso and Professor Javier Ortega-Hernández has been selected for the latest issue of Geology journal. The image is an artistic...
Fossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their environment, and where to place them in the tree of life. One thing though that’s very difficult to observe in the fossil record is an animal’s reproductive behavior. It takes a very uniquely preserved fossil to reveal the secrets behind reproductive strategies in some of the earliest complex animals.
In a new study in the American Society for Microbiology Journal, PhD candidate Yunha Hwang and Professor Peter Girguis compared the genetic diversity of one of the most abundant marine archaeal populations between pacific and atlantic ocean basins to address a fundamental question of how a genetically defined microbial population adapts across diverse environments. The study revealed that these populations feature distinctly ...
Congratulations to Abagail Burrus (Charles Davis and Elena Kramer, Co-Advisors), who has successfully defended her PhD and is now officially Dr. Burrus!
Congratulations to PhD candidate Andrea Appleton (Elena Kramer, Advisor) awarded the American Society of Plant Taxonomists Graduate Student Research Grant for her project titled "Independent evolution of novel structures in closely related clades."
The Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize, which was established in 1899 by bequest of Jacob Wendell, is awarded to a Harvard College sophomore identified by the selection committee as the most promising and broad-ranging scholar in his or her class.
A new study in Rhodora examined the use of marine lichens to assess water pollution levels in the Boston Harbor. The study led by Liam F. Nokes, a former student at Arlington High School who was working in Donald H. Pfister's lab, suggests that marine lichens could prove useful as bioindicators of ocean pollution, and established a plan for a state fungus. Nokes' (now a student at Dartmouth) proposal is currently under review by...
