Graduate News

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...

Congratulations to PhD candidate Gabe Effiong (Robin Hopkins, Advisor) awarded the Student Expedition Fellowship from the Harvard University Herbaria for the project titled, "Population Genetic Structure, Floral Polymorphism, and Reinforcement in Phlox...

Congratulations to PhD candidate Ryan Schmidt-Knapik (Charles Davis, Advisor) awarded the Student Expedition Fellowship from the Harvard University Herbaria for the project titled, "Systematics, Evolution, and Ecology of Verbascum (Scrophulariaceae): a...

Congratulations to PhD candidate Laura Ostrowsky (Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Advisor) awarded the Student Expedition Fellowship from the Harvard University Herbaria for the project titled, "How do Acer rubrum populations from a wide latitudinal gradient...

Congratulations to PhD candidate Laura Ostrowsky (Jeannine Cavender-Bares) awarded the Salata Summer Research Funding Program for the project titled, "Investigating plasticity in leaf morphological traits across a light gradient in tree canopies."

Congratulations to PhD candidate Laura Ostrowsky (Jeannine Cavender-Bares) recipient of the Cunin/Sigal Award from the Arnold Arboretum for the project titled, " How do Acer rubrum populations from a wide latitudinal gradient differ in regenerative...

The Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) featured recent graduate Arianna Lord (PhD '26, Gonzalo Giribet, Advisor) in the Griffin GSAS News. Lord, a native of New Zealand, came to the United Stated to pursue undergraduate studies at...

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Andrea Appleton (Elena Kramer, Advisor) recipient of the Research Scholar Award from the Arnold Arboretum for the project titled, “Androecial evolution, development, and diversity across Cornales.”

Congratulations to PhD candidate Sebastian Martinez-Salazar (Elena Kramer, Advisor) awarded the Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship from Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the project titled, “Exploring changes in nectar spur number in Tropaeolum...

Congratulations to PhD candidate Ian Hughes (Peter Girguis, Advisor) awarded the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research from the American Philosophical Society for the project titled, “Exploring an ecologically critical seagrass symbiosis...