# News Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 194 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 194 results [### State of the World’s Plants and Fungi ](/news/2026/06/state-worlds-plants-and-fungi) June 17, 2026 Harvard University Herbaria is one of 170+ institutions in 40 countries contributing to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s 2026 State of the World’s Plants and Fungi [PDF] report. The report explores how new technology is transforming the race to save nature... ![Digitising plants at Kew](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/01.%20Digitising%20plants%20at%20Kew%20-%20CREDIT%20-%20Jeff%20Eden%20%E2%94%AC%E2%8C%90%20RBG%20Kew.jpg?h=1e53ca76&itok=vSIdrc4j) [### Collection Spotlight – Friedrich Eser’s Dysodil Fossils ](/news/2026/05/collection-spotlight-friedrich-esers-dysodil-fossils) May 08, 2026 In the spring of 2024, while deciding which portion of the HUPB collection to inventory and rehouse next, the paleo team came across a set of very unusual specimens preserved in a sediment called dysodil. These specimens were similar to paper shales –... ![Removing mold (left) and dust (right) from the surface of the specimens and the cardboard.](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/4_cleaning2.jpg?itok=K8qu55VF) [### Specimen Spotlight - The Farlow "Thousand-Dollar Specimens" ](/news/2026/05/specimen-spotlight-farlow-thousand-dollar-specimens) May 01, 2026 Swedish zoologist and ethnographer Eric Georg Mjöberg, seeking sources of funding for a 1925 expedition to Borneo, approached the Farlow Herbarium for a grant in return for all specimens of cryptogams (spore-producing "plants"; this outdated category... ![specimen sheet with Cryphaea_borneensis, labels, ruler, annotations](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Cryphaea_borneensis%20-%20James%20Mitchell.jpg?h=1a6c66f4&itok=JcvC77-i) [### Following in Fernald's Footsteps ](/news/2026/02/following-fernalds-footsteps) February 11, 2026 Harvard botanist Merritt L. Fernald made many collecting trips to Virginia between 1934 & 1947 as part of his work on the 8th edition of Gray's Manual of Botany. On one occasion he wrote about Southeastern Virginia: In spite of almost complete clearing... ![news article](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/2026_0211_ST%20Page%203%20012126%20%28Smithfield%20Times%20Article%29%20-%20Allen%20Milby.jpg?h=ec6e0f78&itok=chSOZtPD) [### New Publication - The Rare, Endangered and Endemic Plants of the California Floristic Province ](/news/2026/02/new-publication-rare-endangered-and-endemic-plants-california-floristic-province) February 04, 2026 Senior Nomenclatural Registrar Kanchi Gandhi is co-author on a new paper out in Aliso documenting the rare, endangered, and endemic plants of the California Floristic Province (CFP), one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots known for high levels of plant... ![pg 107 of publication showing examples of flora](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Page%20107%20%20from%20The%20Rare%20Endangered%20and%20Endemic%20Plants%20of%20CFP%20Baja%20Mexico.jpg?h=9b62628a&itok=-_Kx2a2V) [### New Publication - Genomic Analysis of Pedicularis furbishiae ](/news/2026/01/new-publication-genomic-analysis-pedicularis-furbishiae) January 07, 2026 Postdoctoral Fellow Dawson White has led the publication of the first reference genome and a population genomic analysis of Pedicularis furbishiae, a globally rare plant restricted to dynamic riverbank habitats along the Wolastoq (Saint John) River in... ![Furbish’s lousewort (Pedicularis furbishiae Watson) and geographic distributions](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/DW_ConsGenFig1.jpg?h=21287635&itok=u1kQLL6z) [### Year in Review ](/news/2025/12/year-review) December 17, 2025 The 2024-25 Academic Year was a busy one for the HUH! We welcomed a new Director, Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Farlow, launched the IHerbSpec working group, wished some long-time staff well in their retirements, and... ![2025 Annual Report cover featuring Lamprocapnos spectabilis Fukuhara specimen 01155238](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/2025_Newsletter_web_cover.jpg?h=cd9079fe&itok=6FLl70yt) [### New Publication - The human fingerprint of medicinal plant species diversity ](/news/2025/11/new-publication-human-fingerprint-medicinal-plant-species-diversity) November 24, 2025 Medicinal plants are an important part of both our health and cultural traditions. A new study published in Current Biology explores how human culture shapes where and how diverse medicinal plants are. The authors, including Curator of Vascular Plants... ![Current Biology image](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/PIIS0960982225012503_Page_01.jpg?h=9448f501&itok=KA8qlG6X) [### New Publication - Next-generation specimen digitization ](/news/2025/11/new-publication-next-generation-specimen-digitization) November 03, 2025 The International Herbarium Spectral Digitization Working Group (IHerbSpec), led by HUH Director Jeannine Cavender-Bares and HUH Research Fellow Dawson White, have published a Tansley Review in New Phytologist establishing a scalable, replicable framework... ![Herbarium spectral digitization workflow](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/2025_1101_TansleyReviewJCB.jpg?h=36a3a575&itok=dfCTwHPd) [### The Glass Flowers on Atlas Obscura ](/news/2025/10/glass-flowers-atlas-obscura) October 27, 2025 The Atlas Obscura Podcast recently spoke with Jenny Brown, Collection Manager for the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants about the history of the Glass Flowers. Listen here: ... ![glass_flowers_crop.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/herbaria/files/glass_flowers_crop_2.jpg?itok=9SLBDv0f) [### New Publication - Scientific distinctions between coca and cocaine support policy reform ](/news/2025/10/new-publication-scientific-distinctions-between-coca-and-cocaine-support-policy-reform) October 16, 2025 HUH Research Fellow Dawson White is lead author on an article in Science urging WHO to distinguish coca from cocaine and support evidence-based reform rooted in science and culture. The authors argue that international drug laws wrongly treat the coca... ![woman harvesting coca leaves](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/DawsonWhite_1%20-%20Dawson%20White.jpg?itok=gkWw0tY2) [### Congratulations, Jenifer! ](/news/2025/09/congratulations-jenifer) September 30, 2025 Former HUH Research Fellow, Jenifer Lopes, has been selected as a finalist for a ScientistA Award , "recognizing the remarkable achievements of Brazilian women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at U.S. academic institutions and... ![Jenifer de Carvalho Lopes](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/herbaria/files/lopes_jenifer.jpg?h=9495bd1f&itok=HaoeFlU9) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 17 ](?page=16 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")