Tag: Scott Edwards
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Those birds that crashed and died? It wasn’t fumes.
After internet theorists react to viral video, Harvard researchers answer with science.
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This is what a scientist looks like
Project aims to give young students real-life STEM role models
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Reaccreditation process advances
Long-term Harvard reaccreditation process advances. A team will visit in late October to examine the University’s self-study process.
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Making the most of a dead lizard in the snow
The extreme winter of 2013–2014 created conditions for a Harvard grad student to expand his work on green anole lizards into study of natural selection in action.
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Ensuring high standards
The Gazette sat down with Professor Scott Edwards, who chairs Harvard’s reaccreditation steering committee, to discuss the process ahead for the University.
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Celebrating a decade in São Paulo
The Lemann Brazil Research Fund furthers connections between Harvard and Brazil.
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Strength in movement
Scientists gave little thought to the neurological effects of dance until relatively recently, when researchers began to investigate the complex mental coordination that dance requires.
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Cracking the egg
Mary Caswell Stoddard of Harvard’s Society of Fellows is bringing an interdisciplinary approach to her study of bird eggs.
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Sweet feat
New research by Harvard scientists shows how hummingbirds evolved a novel mechanism of taste.
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Melding the Web and the tactile
An organismic and evolutionary biology course this semester has formed a virtual classroom with other universities to examine the holdings of museum collections and the vast amount of data they contain and integrate them into the classroom.
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Glimpses of paradise
Photographer and Harvard affiliate Tim Laman worked with Edwin Scholes of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology to document all 39 species of birds of paradise.
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Old specimens, fresh answers
A project details changing levels of mercury in endangered albatrosses and highlights the importance of museum specimens in understanding past conditions.