2012

Michael Russello named 2012-1013 Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology. The fellowship is awarded to an individual who will engage in scientific study and work in the Department of Organismic and Evolutonary Biology.

President Barack Obama has appointed James J. McCarthy to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. McCarthy is recognized internationally for his fundamental contributions to oceanography and Arctic science. Full Story.

Research in the Extavour Lab finds that a gene that acts as "master regulator" of germ cell development originally evolved to play a role in the nervous system rather than in reproduction. Graduate student Ben Ewen-Campen was the first author of this...

Elena Kramer among seven faculty members from Harvard University named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows . Full Story.

With sorrow and a profound sense of loss we learned of the death of our colleague and friend, Farish Jenkins , on November 11, 2012.

Hopi Hoekstra receives First Estela Medrano Award for excellence in aging research. The award honors the memory and work of Dr. Estela Medrano a professor at the Huffington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine and an internationally recognized...

Arhat Abzhanov principal investigator in new study of Caribbean bullfinches in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that offers new insights into the development and adaptation of beak shape and shows the molecular signals that produce beak...

Martin Nowak's group latest research paper in Nature Medicine creates a mathematical model that helps to design new drug cocktails aimed at controlling HIV.

L. Mahadevan study in Science unravels the mystery of a cucumber vine's coiled tendrils and has characterized a new kind of spring. Full Story.

Ned Friedman describes the Arnold Arboretum's ginkgo project as part of the first-ever effort to define the entire community of microbes — the “microbiome” — of a tree.