2022

Congratulations to IB concentrator Talia Blatt (Moorcroft lab) awarded the Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship.

Congratulations to IB Concentrator Athena Ye (De Bivort lab), named first marshall of the class of 2023.

Researchers, led by senior author Professor L. Mahadevan, drew inspiration from ants to design simple robots that work collectively to perform complex tasks with simple parameters. The study, published in eLife, sought to understand how individual social...

Stem cells are a biological wonder. They can repair, restore, replace, and regenerate cells. In most animals and humans these cells are limited to regenerating only the cell type they are assigned to. So, hair stem cells will only make hair. Intestine...

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC), an important genomic region for adaptive immunity, has been extensively studied in mammals and birds, but very little in squamate reptiles. In a study in Frontiers in Genetics researchers provide the first...

Ecosystem ecology studies often focus on what’s happening to plants above ground, for instance exploring photosynthesis or water loss in leaves. But what is happening below the ground in plant roots is equally important when evaluating ecosystem processes...

The rise of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) is one of the iconic evolutionary transitions preserved in the fossil record. These animals, which lived about 385 to 320 million years ago during the Devonian and Carboniferous periods of Earth’s history...

The most famous fossils from the Cambrian explosion of animal life over half a billion years ago are very unlike their modern counterparts. These “weird wonders,” such as the five-eyed Opabinia with its distinctive frontal proboscis, and the fearsome apex...

A new study in eLife finds excessive clustering of tree species and over introduction of nonnative species may make urban forests more vulnerable to pests and disease. Co-lead authors Dakota E. McCoy (‘21) and Benjamin Goulet-Scott (‘22) assembled a...

Professor and Department Chair, Scott Edwards, and Professor Cassandra Extavour featured in a display at the University of Bristol, UK, honoring African and African American scientists. October is Black History Month in the United Kingdom.