Tag: Society of Fellows

  • Nation & World

    Seeking clues to how shifting climate may change ocean ecosystems

    By studying the fossil record of one group of organisms, researchers now worry that human-driven climate change may return us to an “Earth of 8 million years ago … detrimentally restructuring the marine communities of the entire ocean.”

    5 minutes
    Anshuman Swain,
  • Nation & World

    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
  • Nation & World

    A literary colossus

    The new Murty Classical Library of India from Harvard University Press, aiming for 500 volumes over the next century, will reveal to the world a “colossal Indian past” of multilanguage literary history from as far back as two millennia.

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression’

    E.O. Wilson has devoted his life to a better understanding of the workings of the natural world and to sharing his research and insights with Harvard students.

    25 minutes
    E.O. Wilson
  • Nation & World

    Pausing to celebrate

    More than 100 faculty, students, and staff from the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology turned out for a barbecue to celebrate the full-professor promotions of Kevin Eggan, Konrad Hochedlinger, and Amy Wagers.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Daniel Aaron’s century

    A Harvard professor emeritus, who still goes to the office every day, turns 100 years old.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Chen wins Lemelson-MIT Prize

    Graduate student Alice A. Chen received the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize on Wednesday (March 9) for her innovative applications of microtechnology to study human health and disease.

    2 minutes