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I Am A Scientist

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A project called "I Am A Scientist" is connecting middle and high school students with modern-day researchers with the goal of breaking down barriers like race, gender, and personal interests. Nabiha Saklayen, PhD '17, and Stephanie Fine Sasse, founder...

Graduate Student, Bhart-Anjan Bhullar Featured in New Scientist Magazine

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Research on the common ancestry of birds and dinosaurs by graduate student Bhart-Anjan Bhullar ( Abzhanov Lab) featured in the New Scientist magazine.

Pardis Sabeti Joins Research Teams to Build Tool to Help Untangle Genetic Variants

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Pardis Sabeti is part of a multi-institutional research team that has demonstrated a tool to help untangle which genetic variants actually create risks for a host of diseases. The team, comprised of scientists from Broad Institute, Harvard University, and...

Forces of Isolation

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Robin Hopkins and her research team have successfully demonstrated a method for measuring the strength of selection in favor of reproductive isolation in Phlox drummondii, helping scientists end a long and frustratingly difficult history of measuring...

How Sweet It Is: Why Hummingbirds Prefer Nectar

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Graduate student, Maude Baldwin ( Edwards Lab) led an international team of scientists in researching how hummingbids evolved to prefer nectar when other birds lack the ability to perceive sweetness. The ground-breaking study published in Science is...

Harvard scientists take the study of regeneration to the next level by making three-banded panther worms transgenic

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Three-banded panther worms are an incredibly impressive marine animal. Known scientifically as the acoel worm named Hofstenia miamia, these tiny animals that grow to only 500 micrometers can perform one of the greatest feats in the animal world, whole...

L. Mahadevan Named 2021 Simons Investigator

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Professor L. Mahadevan, OEB and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been named a 2021 Simons Investigator. Simons Investigators are outstanding theoretical scientists who receive a stable base of research support from the...

David Des Marais Awarded DOE's Joint Genome Institute Grant

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David Des Marais (OEB Research Associate and Senior Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum) has been awarded a grant from the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute to investigate the genetic basis of annual and perennial strategies in plants. David will...

A Mathematical Argument for Stable Families or Stable Friendships

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Working with Emmanuel College scientists, Martin Nowak and Ben Allen (Researcher) developed an algorithm to predict whether a social structure is likely to favor cooperation. Their findings suggest strong pairwise relationships, rather than loose...

Sonali Garg awarded the Indian National Science Academy Medal

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Postdoctoral fellow Sonali Garg (Hanken Lab) awarded Indian National Science Academy Medal for 2022 Young Scientists. The award, considered to be the highest recognition in the field, recognizes Garg's contribution to the field. She has carried out...

Javier Ortega-Hernández awarded a Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship

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Congratulations to Javier Ortega-Hernández and Research Scientist Rudy Lerosey-Aubril who were awarded a Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship for their project, "A fresh North American view into the Cambrian Explosion - new insights into the...

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...