Faculty News

Congratulations to Professor Stephanie Pierce and Postdoctoral Researcher Peter Bishop who are co-recipients of the Division of Earth Sciences-Life & Environments Through Time award from the National Science Foundation for the project titled, "Integrating...

Congratulations to Professor L. Mahadevan, Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Physics, as the recipient of the inaugural Suzanne Eaton Physics of Life Award from Physics of Life, Dresden...

Congratulations to Professor David Haig who has been named Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the Australian Government. A ppointments to the Order of Australia confer the highest recognition for...

Harvard University Herbaria was one of more than 170 institutions spread across 40 countries that contributed to the sixth edition of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, " State of the World's Plants and Fungi" report. Professor Jeannine Cavender-Bares...

The Gazette featured Professor Mandë Holford and her work with deadly marine mollusks whose toxins can work with targeted efficiency at a fast kill and yet also hold the power to cure some human diseases. Holford joined OEB last year where she continues...

Carrie Albertin joins OEB as Assistant Professor and Curator of Malacology in the MCZ. Carrie’s lab investigates one of biology’s most fascinating questions: how new forms and features evolve. Using soft-bodied cephalopods — squid and octopus — as model...

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard featured Professor Jeannine Cavender-Bares's discussion on Oak trees . With more than 430 species worldwide, they help us see how biodiversity is built over evolutionary time – and why that...

For every two living vertebrates on Earth, one is a fish – 95% of which are ray-finned fishes such as salmon, tuna, goldfish, and trout. Ray-finned fishes comprise roughly 35,000 species and thrive in environments ranging from deep-sea trenches to alpine...

Two OEB Professors have been elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS): Pardis Sabeti, professor immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a core member of the Broad Institute, and L...

For more than 270 million years, trilobites were among the most successful and diverse creatures on Earth, with over 22,000 known species spanning the Paleozoic Era. Yet, despite their abundance in the fossil record and their presence on every continent...