2024

Congratulations to Lucrecia Aguilar (Andrew Davies, advisor) awarded the Big Cats Initiative Grant from the Great Plains Foundation for her dissertation research, “"Synthesizing human-lion dynamics across scales to promote socioecological systems of...

Congratulations to Bridget Bickner (Robin Hopkins, Advisor) recipient of the Botanical Society of America Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Award for the proposal, “Genetic architecture of the flower size/number and seed size/number tradeoffs in Phlox...

What began as a childhood fascination with marine biology in landlocked upstate New York has turned into a groundbreaking academic journey for PhD candidate Brooke Travis (Peter Girguis, Advisor) who explores life in one of Earth’s most extreme...

Congratulations to Brooke Travis (Peter Girguis, Advisor) recipient of the Simmons Award from Harvard Center for Biological Imaging Research on Non-Model Organisms for her project, “Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) to Visualize Metabolic...

Congratulations to Catie Strong (Stephanie Pierce, Advisor) awarded the Robert A. Chapman Memorial Scholarship for Vertebrate Locomotion for her thesis, "An Integrated Perspective on the Tetrapod Water-to-Land Transition"

Congratulations to Catie Strong (Stephanie Pierce, Advisor) awarded the American Association for Anatomy Predoctoral Fellowship for her thesis, "An Integrated Perspective on the Tetrapod Water-to-Land Transition." The award provides funding to help...

Congratulations to graduating senior Libby Tseng (Mansi Srivastava) awarded the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for her senior thesis, "Reproduction in the Three-Banded Panther Worm, Hofstenia miamia ."

Congratulations to IB concentrator Beatrice Youd (Andrew Davies) awarded Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship to conduct research in Armenia.

From the Harvard Gazette, Big discovery about microscopic ‘water bears’ : They may be microscopic, but tardigrades are larger than life. Called “water bears” because of their plump shape and lumbering movement, the ancient micro-animals are nearly...

Research by Nicole Mejia, ’22 (IB concentrate in Scott Edwards Lab), looking at effects of plastic in live wedge-tailed shearwaters is featured by Hawaiʻi Public Radio at https://bit.ly/4ghxBAq. Nicole is funded by the Museum of Comparative Zoology's GUR...