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