2019

Congratulations to PhD candidate Sam Church (Extavour Lab), Ben Goulet-Scott (Hopkins Lab), Dakota McCoy (Haig Lab) and Jacob Suissa (Friedman Lab) awarded funding from the Office for Sustainability to plant native plants on the Harvard campus for their...

PhD candidate Anju Manandhar (Holbrook Lab) is recipient of the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging Simmons Award for her project, " Structural mechanism of stomatal movement (How do leaves have pores that open and close?)."

Congratulations to PhD candidate Inbar Maayan (Haig Lab) recipient of the Society of Systematic Biologists Graduate Student Research Award for her project titled, “ Testing species hypotheses in sympatric, wide-ranging Caribbean lizards.”

The non-trilobite arthropod (the largest phylum in the animal kingdom, which includes such familiar forms as lobsters, crabs and spiders) Sinoburius lunaris has been known for approximately three decades, but few details of its anatomy are well understood...

Congratulations to Stephanie Pierce, awarded the 2019 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching! The Harvard Gazette

With profound sadness, we note the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Jim McCarthy, on December 11th after a protracted illness. Jim was a towering figure, whose impact as a scholar, policy advisor, and human being was extraordinary. The OEB...

Congratulations to Andrew Biewener, named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Artificial muscles will power the soft robots and wearable devices of the future, but the underlying mechanics is not well known. Professor L. Mahadevan's study in Physical Review Letters uncovers some of the fundamental physical properties of artificial...

Roopkund Lake is a small body of water nestled deep in the Himalayan mountains. The Lake is known colloquially as Skeleton Lake due to the remains of several hundred ancient human bones scattered around its shores. The skeletons have never been studied so...

New research by Postdoc, Ashesh Dhawale and Bence Ölvecsky suggests errors resulting from variability in motor function are a feature, not a bug, of our nervous system and play a critical role in learning. The study published in Current Biology addresses...