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MFA Exhibit featuring HUH specimens
Later this month, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, unveils a groundbreaking new exhibit that blends art and science: Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer. This is the first solo exhibition in the U.S. dedicated to the remarkable 17th-century...
Rachel Ruysch, Forest Still Life with Stag Beetle and Nest (detail), 1717. Oil on canvas. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.

New Publication - An American botanist on the Nile
Curatorial Assistant Allen Milby has a new publication in Archives of Natural History detailing Asa Gray's trip to North Africa in 1868-1869. Abstract Harvard botanist Asa Gray (1810–1888) has long been celebrated for his many contributions to the floras...
ANH cover v52.1 Apr2025

IHerbSpec Protocol v1.0 Released
The International Herbarium Spectral Digitization Working Group (IHerbSpec), led by HUH Director Jeannine Cavender-Bares and HUH Fellow Dawson White, has released the IHerbSpec Protocol v1.0, a community-developed standard for collecting and managing...
taking spectral measurement of leaf on herbarium sheet

New Publication - Seeing herbaria in a new light
Research Fellow Dawson White and colleagues have a new publication in New Phytologist, "Seeing herbaria in a new light: leaf reflectance spectroscopy unlocks trait and classification modeling in plant biodiversity collections," demonstrating that...
spectral scanning of herbarium specimens

REU student awarded ASPT Research Prize!
Rain E. Bugado, mentored last summer by HUH Research Fellow Dr. Jenifer C. Lopes, was selected as one of the winners of the 2025 Undergraduate Research Prize award by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT). Established in 2013, the ASPT...
HUH Fellow Jenifer Lopes and REU student Rain Bugado

Researcher Spotlight - Ruth Holden and Kono Yasui
Scientific collections serve as important tools for research and education, but they can also be sources of great inspiration. Those who study and manage these collections are often shaped by them; professional careers and entire life paths can start with...
Ruth Holden and Kono Yasui

Staff Spotlight - Temsalet Bruke
This academic year we had the pleasure of hosting School-to-Work high school intern Temsalet Bruke at the HUH. A junior at the local Cambridge high school, Temsalet worked with our Administrative Manager, Jeannette Everritt, on myriad office tasks varying...
Temsalet Bruke

First IHerbSpec Symposium
The Harvard University Herbaria hosted an international meeting May 1-3, bringing together researchers from the world’s leading herbaria for the first IHerbSpec Symposium. The goal of the event was to develop standardized protocols and metadata standards...
group photo