2023

They’d been in the collections of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) since the 1870s when they were first discovered. Nestled in among the largest collection of trilobites, the unique fossils rested in drawers until 145 years later when Sarah...

A team of researchers led by L. Mahadevan, Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics in...

Professor L. Mahadevan, Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics in the Faculty of Arts...

Congratulations to IB Concentrator Ashwin Sivakumar (Scott Edwards Lab) winner of the 2023-24 Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize. The Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize, which was established in 1899 by bequest of Jacob Wendell, is awarded to a Harvard College...

Professor Bence Ölveczky has joined the crew of the 70-foot yacht, the Washington, DC, to take on the most dangerous leg of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race! The crew will race from Cape Town, South Africa to Freemantle, Australia. That leg of the...

Professor Andrew Davies joined conservation scientist Fiona "Boo" Maisels from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) on the final episode of the Congo Basin season on Mongabay Explores Podcast. The researchers discuss the ecological benefits of forest...

Yangfan Zhang, postdoctoral fellow in Professor George Lauder's lab, featured in the Journal of Experimental Biology Spotlight on Researchers. Zhang and Lauder recently published the commentary, " Energetics of collective movement in vertebrates" in the...

Amphibians, the first vertebrates to inhabit land 360 million years ago, are facing existential threats due to climate change, habitat destruction, and disease. Postdoctoral researcher Sonali Garg and associate Sathyabhama Das Biju co-authored a new study...

In a study published in Communications Biology, researchers, led by postdoctoral researcher Karma Nanglu, describe a 480-million-year-old cephalopod from Morocco that shows the earliest example of ocean bottom dwellers making their home in dead bodies...

Professor George Lauder teamed with scientists from Yale University and the University of Florida to host three students for an eight week summer program called Accessible Sharks. The program is part of the NSF funded Research Experience for...