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Half-Earth Day 2026: Half-Earth at Ten, Honoring a Legacy of Hope
Join the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard University Herbaria, the Harvard University Native American Program, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, and the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation for Half-Earth Day 2026 — the tenth...
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Carrie Albertin awarded a 2026 Klingenstein Fellowship
Carrie Albertin, MCZ Curator in Malacology, was awarded a 2026 Klingenstein Fellowship for her project Mechanisms of Neurogenesis in the Largest Invertebrate Brain. The Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience supports early career investigators...
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MCZ Specimen Sparks New Scientific Insights
After 80 million years, a giant fossil jaw has quite a story to tell. Back in the age of the dinosaurs, Tylosaurus proriger was a fearsome predator — a bus-sized aquatic reptile with a crushing snout, daggerlike teeth, and knack for swallowing prey whole...
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Save the Date for Half-Earth Day 2026!
Explore the work of naturalists past and present, enriched by insights from art, literature, the humanities, and Indigenous communities. Half-Earth Day honors the legacy of nature and global efforts to understand, protect, and sustain the living world...
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How to Discover a New Species
The Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) featured recent graduate Arianna Lord (PhD '26, Gonzalo Giribet, Advisor) in the Griffin GSAS News. Lord, a native of New Zealand, came to the United Stated to pursue undergraduate studies at...
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On the Path to Research, Teach, and Curate
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...
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Birding Helped Him Soar in Evolutionary Science
The FAS Current featured Ashwin Sivakumar, Integrative Biology Concentrator in Scott Edwards Lab, detailing how his interest in nature shaped his academic pursuits and his work with Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Ashwin's work in the Edwards Lab...
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How Venom Kills — and Can Lead to Cures
One of the newest Curators in the MCZ, Professor Mandë Holford, is featured in the Harvard Gazette. Research in the Holford Lab focuses on venomous sea snails and cephalopods, their toxins, and how those compounds might be turned into medicines.
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Wendy Valencia-Montoya awarded the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize
Congratulations to Wendy Valencia-Montoya (PhD '25, Naomi Pierce, Advisor) awarded The Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize. The Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution to recognize the accomplishments and future...
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How Researchers Unlocked the Respiratory Secrets of the Trilobite
For more than 270 million years, trilobites were among the most successful and diverse creatures on Earth, with over 22,000 known species spanning the Paleozoic Era. Yet, despite their abundance in the fossil record and their presence on every continent...
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