Tag: Scott Edwards

  • Science & Tech

    Those birds that crashed and died? It wasn’t fumes.

    After internet theorists react to viral video, Harvard researchers answer with science.

    2–3 minutes
    Flock of blackbirds.
  • Science & Tech

    This is what a scientist looks like

    Project aims to give young students real-life STEM role models

    12–18 minutes
    Some of the researchers featured in the "I Am A Scientist" project.
  • Campus & Community

    Reaccreditation process advances

    Long-term Harvard reaccreditation process advances. A team will visit in late October to examine the University’s self-study process.

    2–3 minutes
  • Health

    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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    7–10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Celebrating a decade in São Paulo

    The Lemann Brazil Research Fund furthers connections between Harvard and Brazil.

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    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.

    5–7 minutes
  • Health

    Cracking the egg

    Mary Caswell Stoddard of Harvard’s Society of Fellows is bringing an interdisciplinary approach to her study of bird eggs.

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    Sweet feat

    New research by Harvard scientists shows how hummingbirds evolved a novel mechanism of taste.

    5–7 minutes
  • Health

    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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    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.

    4–5 minutes
  • Health

    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.

    3–5 minutes