Congratulations to Jasmin Camacho (Hoekstra Lab) awarded the American Association of University Women (AAUW) 2018 American Fellowship for her project, "Developmental, Cellular, and Genetic Mechanisms Underlying Striking Craniofacial Variation in New World Leaf-Nosed Bats." The AAUW is the nation’s leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls, supporting women scholars since...

Postdoctoral Researcher, Federico Roda (Hopkins Lab) investigated the mechanistic link between a plants ability to reject its own pollen and to reject pollen from another species. By performing over 5000 controlled crosses in a group of native Texas wildflowers, Roda and Prof. Hopkins found these two types of pollen rejection systems were highly correlated across individuals and occurred at the same time during pollen development. The study published in...

In the 1930s, paleontologists excavated approximately 4,000 pounds of material in Goshen County Wyoming on Harvard owned land; some of the materials were sent by train to Harvard MCZ. For more than 80 years, collection stopped, until this money when Jim Hanken, Stephanie Pierce and Chris Capobianco (Preparator in MCZ Vertebrate Zoology) visited the site. The trio brought back their findings and plan to return again, perhaps even for a fieldtrip with Pierce's students....