2010

Farish Jenkins received the GSAS Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. The award honors faculty for efforts in supporting, encouraging and promoting their graduate students' research, education, professional and personal development, and...

Anne Pringle and grad student Ben Wolfe combine field work and genetic analysis to research the deadly deathcap mushroom, amanita phalloides . Full Story.

The 2010-2011 Hrdy Visiting Fellowship has been awarded to Per Jakob Palsbøll of Stockholm University. He will be working on meshing theory and empirical data concerning the conservation genetics of North Atlantic humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae...

Colleen Cavanaugh discussed her undersea symbiosis research on PRI's Living on Earth .

Chuck Davis and Jonathan Losos have identified a link between climate change and spreading of invasive species in Thoreau's woods. Boston Globe. NPR:WBUR. Harvard Gazette. Harvard Magazine.

Prof. Edward O. Wilson's story, Trailhead , taken from his upcoming novel, Anthill , is published in The New Yorker . New Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, talked to Wilson about his work and first novel.

Postdoc Heidi Fisher and Hopi Hoekstra report in a study in Nature that sperm can recognize and preferentially cooperate with its closest relatives when driven by competition. The study was featured on NPR's Morning Edition.

Pardis Sabeti 's lab helped develop a statistical method called a " Composite of Multiple Signals" to target areas of beneficial variation in the human genome.