Tag: Ann Pearson

  • Campus & Community

    Opening the door for scientific leaps

    The projects range from making one the world’s smallest flying machines to opening a new lane of research in the study of climate change to developing a groundbreaking technology that conducts electricity with 100 percent efficiency to an investigation of how environmental change affects bees.

    5 minutes
    Man giving presentation
  • Campus & Community

    Five named Harvard College Professors

    Five faculty members have been selected as Harvard College Professors, five-year appointments that provide them with extra support for research or scholarly activities, a semester of paid leave, or summer salary.

    8 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Deep into the past

    Harvard’s traditional Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises showcased gifted graduates, gifted teachers, gifted members of the Class of 1965, and a poet and orator who both looked to the past to call up lessons for the future.

    3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A peek at Harvard’s future

    Maya Jasanoff and her faculty colleagues gathered at the Tsai Auditorium on Feb. 16 and March 7 to consider how the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) may look in a generation. The discussions were part of the Conversations @ FAS series, which this year asks some of Harvard’s leading scholars to imagine the faculty…

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Time travel in chalk

    Members of Professor Ann Pearson’s lab switched from science to art recently, decorating the slate panels outside the Hoffman Laboratory with depictions of three great eras in Earth’s history: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    The record in the rocks

    Students travel to Italy to study how geologic records show how life on Earth shifted after a cataclysmic event.

    5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Surrendering their secrets

    Ann Pearson, professor of biogeochemistry, uses chemistry to understand ancient biology.

    4 minutes
  • Health

    Microbes thrive in harsh, isolated water under Antarctic glacier

    A reservoir of briny liquid buried deep beneath an Antarctic glacier supports hardy microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years, researchers report this week in the journal…

    4 minutes