Concord Field Station

Former MCZ graduate student, Carolyn Eng, and Professor Andrew Biewener have co-authored two studies, in the Journal of Experimental Biology and the Journal of Biomechanics, that examine how the iliotibial (IT) band stores and releases elastic energy to...

Research by Andy Biewener and former postdoc David Williams describes how birds use two postures to avoid obstacles in flight. The study was published on March 17, 2015 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and featured in the Harvard Gazette

Research by former MCZ graduate student Talia Moore and Faculty-Curator Andy Biewener found that jerboas, a bipedal rodent with proportionately large hind limbs, employ unpredictable moves to evade predators, more so than other bipedal and quadropedal...

Graduate student Brianna McHorse and Faculty-Curators Stephanie Pierce and Andy Biewener used beam bending to investigate the evolution of digit reduction in horses. The research was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B and featured in the...