2014

Yoel Stuart, a former graduate student in OEB, and Professor, Jonathan Losos discover rapid real-time evolution in the green anole lizard. Full story.

Hopi Hoekstra's research on the genetics of animal architectures is featured in the November issue of Scientific American.

Jonathan Losos's research on the Island biogeography of the Anthropocene is featured on the cover of Nature.

Pardis Sabeti and Stephen Gire, a researcher in the Sabeti lab, report in the Boston Globe how the U.S. can stop Ebola from spreading. Full story

Stephen Gire, a researcher in the Sabeti lab, took part in a panel discussion on Ebola at the Harvard School of Public Health. Gire, who studies the Ebola genome has traveled to the epidemic nations of West Africa several times to conduct genetic research...

Robin Hopkins and her research team have successfully demonstrated a method for measuring the strength of selection in favor of reproductive isolation in Phlox drummondii, helping scientists end a long and frustratingly difficult history of measuring...

Graduate student, Maude Baldwin ( Edwards Lab) led an international team of scientists in researching how hummingbids evolved to prefer nectar when other birds lack the ability to perceive sweetness. The ground-breaking study published in Science is...

A t nearly 100 feet long and weighing as much as 170 tons, the blue whale is the largest creature on the planet, and by far the heaviest living thing ever seen on Earth. So there’s no way it could have anything in common with the tiniest fish larvae...

Two months after handing over the reins of the College to Rakesh Khurana, former interim Dean of the College, Donald H. Pfister is taking full advantage of the freedom afforded by his sabbatical this academic year. Full Story

The Sabeti lab's work sequencing the Ebola genome to provide further insight into the outbreak featured in the Boston Globe.