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Wendy Heywood

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Wendy manages all content of the department print and web publications, social networking applications, and other online communications. She designs and produces newsletters, press releases, news stories, promotional brochures, event materials, and...

How the Mammal Got Its Stripes

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Research Associate, Ricardo Mallarino, and Hopi Hoekstra looked to the African striped mouse to investigate the periodic stripes pattern, which is common in mammals. Their findings, published in the lastest issue of Nature, reveal the mechanisms that lead...

Brian Farrell Appointed Faculty Dean of Leverett House

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Congratulations to Brian Farrell, who will serve as faculty dean for Leverett House along with Irina P. Ferreras. Farrell and Ferreras will begin their service in Fall 2018. The Harvard Crimson

OEB Faculty Participate In Life Sciences-HHMI Summer Outreach Program

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OEB faculty participated in the 2009 Harvard Life Sciences/Howard Hughes Medical Institute sponsored summer outreach programs for high school biology teachers and students. Read more about the MCB-hosted program. Visit the program website . Follow links...

Christopher Marx Receives Prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award

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Christopher Marx received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award from the National Science Foundation .

OEB Faculty Receive 2017 Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Excellence

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Congratulations to OEB faculty Andrew Berry (OEB 53, SCIPHUNV 20) and Kathleen Pritchett-Corning (OEB 104) awarded the Fall 2017 Derek Bok Center Certificates of Distinction in Teaching!

OEB Faculty Receive 2017 Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Excellence

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Congratulations to OEB faculty awarded the Spring 2017 Derek Bok Center Certificates of Teaching Excellence! Spring 2017: Andrew Berry (OEB 53), James Mallet (OEB 278), Steven Niemi (OEB 104), and Kathleen Pritchett-Corning (OEB 104).

Pardis Sabeti Part of Scientific Team that Adapted CRISPR-Based Diagnostic Platform

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Pardis Sabeti is part of a scientific team from the Broad Institute, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University...

Stephanie Pierce Lab Goes Fossil Hunting at Blue Beach

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Stephanie Pierce and lab members are at Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Hantsport Nova Scotia searching for fossils from the lower carboniferous rock period. Carboniferous rocks help fill in "Romer's Gap", the period of time that explains the evolution of...

Research in Hoekstra Lab Discovers DNA That Tells Mice How to Construct Their Homes

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A new paper in Nature by Hopi Hoekstra, postdoc, Brant Peterson and graduate student, Jess Weber reveals the DNA that tells mice how to construct their homes. The Hoekstra lab's work on the genetics of mouse behavior is featured in The New York Times...

L. Mahadevan Explains the Science Behind the Perfect Pitch

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L. Mahadevan teamed with M. Venkadesan, of Yale University, to create a mathematical model showing the optimal way to throw. Their research published in the Royal Society Open Science shows the science behind one of the most complex actions humans perform...