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The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard featured Professor Jeannine Cavender-Bares's discussion on Oak trees . With more than 430 species worldwide, they help us see how biodiversity is built over evolutionary time – and why that...

For every two living vertebrates on Earth, one is a fish – 95% of which are ray-finned fishes such as salmon, tuna, goldfish, and trout. Ray-finned fishes comprise roughly 35,000 species and thrive in environments ranging from deep-sea trenches to alpine...

Two OEB Professors have been elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS): Pardis Sabeti, professor immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a core member of the Broad Institute, and L...

For more than 270 million years, trilobites were among the most successful and diverse creatures on Earth, with over 22,000 known species spanning the Paleozoic Era. Yet, despite their abundance in the fossil record and their presence on every continent...

Congratulations to PhD candidate Laura Ostrowsky (Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Advisor) awarded the Student Expedition Fellowship from the Harvard University Herbaria for the project titled, "How do Acer rubrum populations from a wide latitudinal gradient...

Congratulations to Wendy Valencia Montoya (PhD '25, Naomi Pierce, Advisor) awarded The Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize. The Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution to recognize the accomplishments and future...

Congratulations to PhD candidate Gabe Effiong (Robin Hopkins, Advisor) awarded the Student Expedition Fellowship from the Harvard University Herbaria for the project titled, "Population Genetic Structure, Floral Polymorphism, and Reinforcement in Phlox...