News Archive
04/29/2010 | Announcing the 6th Annual Plant Biology Symposium: Trees and the Global Environment |
02/11/2010 | Nature Research Highlight features Davis and colleagues: Climate Change, Warming boosts invasions. |
02/04/2010 | Davis and Losos labs identify link between climate change and invasive species in Thoreau's woods. |
10/28/2009 | Senior research scientist, Campbell Webb, and his wife, combine their interests in nature and health in unique ways in the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, at the Asri ClinicPBS.org |
10/26/2009 | Donald Pfister honored for work with fungi: The Northeast Mycological Federation (NEMF) presented him with the Amicus Tironum Award |
10/15/2009 | 30 new plant species uncovered in the Hengduan Mountains, China. David Boufford began collecting in the region in the mid-1990s |
09/17/2009 | New Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Dr. Kirsten Bomblies, examines plant immune responses for clues to divergence |
Sept-Oct 2009 | A scrapbook of seaweed and seaside scenes of Martha's Vineyard, including a scrapbook given to Harvard's Farlow Herbarium in 2002, and featuring an online exhibition arranged by Lisa DeCesare |
04/30/2009 | The Dalai Lama planted a birch tree in Harvard Yard, a hybrid of Eastern and Western varieties, created especially for the occasion by the staff of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum. |
04/26/2009 | Carroll Wood, professor emeritus at Harvard University, passed away at age 88, leaving behind an important botanical legacy. |
March-April 2009 | A collection of botanical pith paintings acquired by Charles Sprague Sargent, and currently housed in the archives of the Botany Libraries, was featured in Harvard Magazine and are currently part of an online exhibition arranged by Lisa DeCesare. |
03/26/2009 | John Muir's botanical travels, plant collecting, and tracking down his plant specimens |
12/18/2008 | Dr. Paul Moorcroft's forest models provide detailed view of forest responses to climate variation |
10/30/2008 | Davies and colleagues at the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) are building an observatory out of trees |
10/28/2008 | Grad students Brad Rhufel and Charles Willis, working with Charles Davis, used Thoreau's Walden Pond plant records to document climate change |
10/14/2008 | Takeshi Ise, a 2008 OEB PhD graduate in Paul Moorcroft's lab, has shown that rising temperatures may dry up peat bogs, causing carbon release. |
9/25/2008 | Harvard Forest Director David Foster, promotes conservation of Bay State forestland through "Wildlands and Woodlands" |
8/13/2008 | Don Pfister awarded the Weston Award for Teaching Excellence by the Mycological Society of America |
7/4/2008 | Grad students Brad Rhufel and Charles Willis, working with Charles Davis, used Thoreau's Walden Pond plant records to document climate change |
5/22/2008 | Ashton: A legacy written in trunk, limb, and leaf |
4/10/2008 | Arboretum launches online Seed Herbarium Image Project (SHIP), a significant new resource for horticulturalists around the world. |
3/30/2008 | Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology showcases "Sea Creatures in Glass," part of a larger collection of glass animals and plants made by the Blaschkas. |
1/27/2008 | Peter Ashton awarded the 10th David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration by the National Tropical Botanical Garden |
12/12/2007 | Charles Davis's Rafflesia paper selected as Discover Magazine's top 100 discoveries of 2007 |
12/06/2007 | Donald Pfister chosen as new dean of Harvard Summer School |
12/06/2007 | Arnold Arboretum's bonsai collection highlights age and beauty |
10/25/2007 | Biodiversity field course brings students to Borneo |
09/13/2007 | The origin of the Orchidaceae is discovered from a fossil orchid |
04/05/2007 | Kenneth Feeley discovers surprising results about global warming |
02/08/2007 | Anne Pringle investigates the death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides |
02/01/2007 | Charles Davis solves the mystery of Rafflesia |
01/11/2007 | Peter Ashton awarded the Japan Prize |