2014

Congratulations to graduating senior Georgia Shelton, Brian Farrell Lab, awarded the Hoopes Prize for her senior thesis, "The Biodiversity of the Bees at the Arnold Arboretum."

Joe Roman awarded 2014-2015 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 Evolutionary Biology.

Andrew Richardson and research associate, Trevor Keenan (Richardson Lab) worked with seven U.S. institutions studying eastern United States forests and found signs of spring growth was dramatically earlier. Read more about the paper published in Nature...

Andrew Richardson's work recording nature's color signals to understand the feedback between plants and a changing climate is featured in Discover Magazine.

Hopi Hoekstra named one of five Harvard College Professors honored for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Read more.

Findings by Postdoctoral Fellow, Mary C. Stoddard ( Edwards lab) and colleagues from the University of Cambridge were published in the Journal Nature Communications "The ability of Common Cuckoos to mimic the appearance of many of their hosts' eggs has...

Peter Girguis opened his lab to three high school interns as part of a new collaboration between Harvard and Cambridge Rindge and Latin. "We've been able to give students exposure to a research lab and allow them to experience the joy of discovery...

Andrew H. Knoll is one of seven distinguished scholars receiving honorary degrees from The University of Chicago during the 519th Convocation on Saturday, June 14 on the Main Quadrangle. Full story.

A team of researchers, led by Peter Girguis, have demonstrated that the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris can use natural conductivity to pull electrons from minerals located deep in soil and sediment while remaining at the surface, where it absorbs...

Elizabeth Wolkovich -- an authority on plant phenology, or the timing of natural life cycle events, and how those may be affected by climate change -- offered an insider's view to The Gazette of the slow-blooming spring and how it fits into the puzzle of...