Tag: Anne Pringle

  • Nation & World

    Top-notch teachers

    Edo Berger, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, and Anne Pringle, an associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, have been named the recipients of the 2013 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Mushroom relations

    Harvard researchers are using one of the most comprehensive fungal “family trees” ever created to unlock evolutionary secrets.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    More from spores: How they spread

    Researchers discover how fungi developed an aerodynamic way to reduce drag on their spores so as to spread them as high and as far as possible.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Exploring a world within a world

    Lichens provide an avenue for student scientific exploration of plant complexity.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Killer mushrooms!

    It is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of emperors. In parts of California’s forests, it is everywhere. It is the deathcap mushroom, Amanita phalloides, so filled with…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Understanding the deadly deathcap

    Biology Professor Anne Pringle is taking the study of one of the world’s most poisonous mushrooms out of the realm of adventure stories and into the world of ecology, in an attempt to better understand how it spreads.

    4 minutes