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.

    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

    15 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 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.

    5 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.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Celebrating a decade in São Paulo

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

    4 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.

    6 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.

    5 minutes
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    Sweet feat

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

    6 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.

    5 minutes
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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.

    4 minutes
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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.

    4 minutes