Tag: Andrew Murray

  • Nation & World

    5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors

    Five faculty members join the ranks of Harvard College Professors.

    6 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    Bringing biology and mathematics together

    The National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation have awarded a grant to Harvard scientists to create a research center aimed at bringing biologists and mathematicians together to answer some of the central questions about living systems.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Andrew Murray named an HHMI professor

    Professor Andrew Murray was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor and will receive $1 million in funding for innovation in undergraduate science education.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Funding international science research

    Six Harvard faculty members received Human Frontier Science Program awards to fund international collaborative science research.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Strength in numbers

    Harvard researchers have created an analogue of what they think the first multicellular cooperation might have looked like, showing that yeast cells — in an environment that requires them to work for their food — grow and reproduce better in multicellular clumps than singly.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Investigating phenomenon of sleep

    Alexander Schier’s transparent fish are helping him understand the basic secrets of human development: how early embryonic cells communicate so that some develop into heart tissue, some into brain cells, and others into tissues that form the rest of the body.

    1 minute