Mammalogy

Research out of the Hoekstra Lab shows how evolution prepared two species to adopt different survival strategies to take advantage of native habitats. Read about the research in the Harvard Gazette feature "You’re a deer mouse, and bird is diving at you...

The MCZ is pleased to share the news that Hopi Hoekstra, MCZ Curator of Mammalogy, will become the next Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Hopi is currently the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Departments of Molecular...

Congratulations to Hopi Hoekstra, MCZ Curator of Mammalogy, appointed the C.Y. Chan Professor of Arts & Sciences. This professorship is the highest honor recognizing scholarly achievement that the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences can bestow upon one...

Congratulations to Curator of Mammalogy, Hopi Hoekstra, one of six recipients of the 2022 Lowell Thomas Award from The Explorers Club. The award is presented to those who have pushed the limits of discovery, knowledge and human endurance, and have...

Research led by Harvard alumna Jenna Tonn revealed how an MCZ exhibition on the genetics of domesticated animals, featuring specimens from Ornithology and Mammalogy, modernized the natural history museum. Read more about the history of early 20 thcentury...

Congratulations to Hopi Hoekstra recipient of the 2019 C. Hart Merriam Award from the American Society of Mammalogists! The award, established in 1974 to honor outstanding research contributions to mammalogy, is the highest research award presented by the...

Multiple MCZ specimens highlight the Ernst Mayr Library exhibit "Hearing" currently on display in the lobby of the Northwest Building at Harvard.

Jesse Weber, a graduate student in Hopi Hoekstra's lab, was awarded the Hamilton Prize for the best student paper at the Evolution 2009 Meeting.

Work by of Yael Salzman, a postdoctoral researcher in Hopi Hoekstra's lab, on the molecular evolution of toxic proteins in shrews was featured in The Washington Post, 6/7/2009.

Hopi Hoekstra's work on cryptic coloration in mice was featured in Smithsonian Magazine: Evolution in Black and White.