A new exhibit at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, opening Friday, probes how calipers and spirometers never simply recorded differences. They helped invent them.
The Biological Laboratories at 16 Divinity Avenue first opened in 1931. In the 95 years of its existence, the storied building has been home to the pioneering evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson, a dozen eventual Nobel laureates, and even a self-described “zombiologist” or two.
Sixteen years ago, an invasive pest called the woolly adelgid arrived at Harvard Forest and slowly began to devastate its the eastern hemlocks — as they had done in forcce elsewhere. Since then, Harvard Forest scientists have begun to study how to manage the demise of its so-called foundation species.
Piano Technical Services and the Office for the Arts worked with Vijay Iyer, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, to select the “unusually strong” instrument.
The topping-off ceremony, a construction rite rooted in ancient Scandinavian rituals, took place August 27 at the site of the future Pritzker Hall, which will house the Department of Economics. The building project was set in motion five years ago.
Deep in the woods of Petersham, Mass., the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology is cultivating a renewable resource — future generations of scientists.
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. How its bones wound up at Harvard is a tangled yarn involving a Wild West stagecoach station, the early western railroads, the infamous “Bone Wars” between rival fossil hunters, and a founding scholar of natural history.
After spending two years immersed in digitized versions of the Tibetan Buddhist canon for his Harvard Divinity School studies, Sherab Chomphel, M.T.S. ’25, was finally face to face with the centuries-old block prints themselves.
FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra helped dedicate a plaque at the teenage home of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.
Joyce Chaplin’s “Rewilding Harvard” is reimagining the Harvard landscape.
Nicole Breen has brought “boundless energy, wisdom, and care” to support the community.