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Tag: Ned Friedman
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Nation & World
How does your garden grow?
Harvard Arboretum administration and staff discuss how they achieved record visitor numbers and what’s staying post-pandemic.
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Nation & World
Arboretum gets a solar boost
The Weld Hill Solar Project, currently underway, is the Arnold Arboretum’s third and largest solar project and Harvard’s most ambitious sustainability initiative to date, with nearly 1,300 solar panels powering a 45,000-square-foot science laboratory and teaching facility in Roslindale.
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Nation & World
Beating the beetles
The Arnold Arboretum celebrates a successful collaboration with the U.S. government to prevent tree destruction by the invasive Asian longhorned beetle.
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Nation & World
No summer lull in learning
It was a busy summer of Harvard-supported learning on campus and in the neighboring communities.
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Nation & World
Sharing a passion for science
Harvard scientists are participating in the Cambridge Science Festival, 10 days of events where experts in technology, engineering, and math share research with the public.
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Nation & World
Worming out of listening
A freshman seminar helps students to understand Darwin by reading his works and re-creating 10 experiments — including one showing that the wiggly creatures just don’t hear.
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Nation & World
Actually, the star’s a turkey
Visiting Professor Pamela Diggle took listeners into the botanical roots of Thanksgiving dinner, illustrating how nature’s everyday trials forced plants to come up with unusual — and delicious — ways to survive.
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Nation & World
Planting a research center in the arboretum
With the opening of the Weld Hill facility at Arnold Arboretum, staff members and lab equipment are filling the long-awaited space dedicated to botanical research.
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Nation & World
What made Darwin first
Evolution icon Charles Darwin rushed “On the Origin of Species” into print to beat the competition, but neglected to credit early thinkers on the subject, who let him know it after the book’s 1859 publication, leading to his appended “Historical Sketch” in later editions.
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Nation & World
Friedman named director of Arboretum
William “Ned” Friedman, an evolutionary biologist who has done extensive research on the origin and early evolution of flowering plants, has been appointed director of the Arnold Arboretum.
