Hopi Hoekstra talks about the MCZ’s collection of horns and antlers on display in the Harvard Museum of Natural History. “Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers” is on exhibit until January 2. Full Story....
Naomi Pierce joins economists and biologists from Harvard University, University of Toronto and University of East Anglia to co-author a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggesting that the mutually beneficial relationships that species create are maintained...
Ned Friedman, who will be joining the OEB faculty in January 2011, talked with the Boston Globe about some of his plans for the Arnold Arboretum in his role as its new director.
Research by Peter Girguis and Scott Wankel adds to understanding of deep sea microbes' ability to degrade the byproducts of the Deepwater Horizon spill. Full Story.
David Haig has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Full Story.
The NSF awarded a grant to study the dimensions of earth's biodiversity to PI Stuart Davies, Director of the Center for Tropical Forest Science of the Arnold Arboretum, Asia program.Press release, 10/5/2010
Anne Pringle is lead author of a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showing ffungal spores travel farther by surfing their own wind. Findings could have implications for methods of controlling the spread of fungal pathogens. Full Story.
E.O. Wilson and PED director, Martin Nowak, presented in Nature a new theory on the evolution of eusociality, the rare but spectacularly successful social structure in which individuals of the world’s most dominant species cooperate to raise offspring. ...