Hopi Hoekstra Named Harvard College Professor

June 20, 2014

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

Postdoc Mary C. Stoddard Published in Nature Communications

June 18, 2014

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...

Three Students from Cambridge Rindge and Latin Intern at Girguis Lab

June 4, 2014

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.

Fisheye Tower at Harvard Forest courtesy of Andrew Richardson

Andrew Richardson and Colleagues Find Worrisome Growth Pattern

June 1, 2014

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 ...

Reading Climate Change in Leaves

May 27, 2014

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

Professor Andrew Knoll to Receive Honorary Degree from University of Chicago

May 27, 2014

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.

Congratulations to Tanner Strickland!

May 9, 2014

Congratulations to graduating senior, Tanner Strickland who won the Hoopes Prize for his thesis, "Lizards bridging the gap: Phylogeography of the Puerto Rican Crested Anole (Anolis cristatellus) across the Puerto Rican Bank.”

Nutrition and Reproductive Capacity

May 6, 2014

Work from the Extavour Lab shows that evolutionary changes in insulin signaling underlie differential reproductive capacity between species of fruit flies, and that the same mechanism also explains why different species show distinct changes in reproductive capacity when faced with changing nutritional conditions. Read the original article in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Read more in the Harvard Gazette.

Undergraduate Student, Georgia Shelton, Awarded Hoopes Prize

May 1, 2014

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

You Call This Spring?

May 1, 2014

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.

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