Ornithology

The FAS Current featured Lauren Bartel, IB Concentrator in Scott Edwards Lab, who joined the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture student board as a first-year and stayed her full four years helping to increase public understanding and appreciation for...

Congratulations to Teresa Pegan, postdoctoral fellow in the Scott Edwards Lab, recipient of the James G. Cooper Early Professional Award . This award by the American Ornithological Association honors early-career researchers for their outstanding...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences recently launched Veritalk, a new short-form video series that spotlights the groundbreaking research happening across the FAS. Faculty share the curiosity, innovation, and global impact of what they study, what...

From the Harvard Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology : Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s centuries-old sketches of self-supporting bridges, Professor L. Mahadevan, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics at Harvard’s John A. Paulson...

Research from postdoc Bohao Fang and MCZ faculty-curator Scott Edwards suggests a big DNA flip may have made house finches resistant to some diseases. The project involved using DNA samples from MCZ's ornithology collection. What prompts genetic...

Research by Nicole Mejia, ’22 ( Edwards Lab) on the effects of plastic in live wedge-tailed shearwaters is featured by Hawaiʻi Public Radio. The project was funded by an MCZ Grants-in-aid of Undergraduate Research grant and Wetmore Colles funding...

Scott V. Edwards, professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and MCZ's curator of ornithology, is the senior author of the published genome of the little bush moa, an extinct, flightless bird. “We can study modern birds by looking...

MCZ Curator of Ornithology and Professor, Scott Edwards, is featured in the Harvard Magazine article, How Birds Lost Flight: Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches. The article discusses not only how his insights have fundamentally shaped the...

Professor Scott Edwards, MCZ Curator of Ornithology, and the Department Chair of Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, is featured in HMSC Connects! Scott is a longtime champion of promoting diversity in the sciences, and in this...