Tag: Asa Gray

  • Nation & World

    Chinese botanists hit trail with Arboretum

    Chinese botanists collect seeds during their inaugural expedition in the Appalachian Mountains with members of the Arnold Arboretum.

    6 minutes
    Holcomb Creek Falls in Chattahoochee National Forest in Rabun County, Georgia.
  • Nation & World

    Constructive summer

    Harvard’s Summer School offers students young and old access to the University’s archives, museums, and libraries, as well as more than 300 courses.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Dialogue with the deans

    Harvard College interim Dean Donald Pfister and Dean of Student Life Stephen Lassonde made themselves available to field questions from students in a “meet the deans” forum.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Pfister named interim dean

    Donald Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and dean of the Harvard Summer School, has been appointed interim dean of Harvard College. Pfister’s career at Harvard spans nearly 40 years.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Gray gets stamp of approval

    The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new postage stamp honoring Asa Gray, founder of Harvard’s Herbaria and the man considered the founder of American botany, in a ceremony at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    On God and evolution

    The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s Asa Gray Bicentennial Celebration kicks off with “Re: Design,” a play centered on the correspondence of Gray and Charles Darwin.

    3 minutes