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The Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries has been the centerpiece of plant biodiversity research at the University since the early 1800s. HUH collections are a major international botanical resource, and are frequently consulted by workers in...

Research Funding Opportunities

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The HUH is pleased to offer resources to help researchers fund their work through travel grants and fellowships. The resources vary in focus, eligibility and application process. Please see the individual descriptions below for more details. For more...

A Research Highlight in Nature

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Davis Lab visiting postdoctoral fellow Emily Meineke's research on carbon storage in forests was recently a Research Highlight in Nature!

Welcome new Research Fellows!

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This week we welcomed two new HUH Research Fellows to our community! Dr. Yujing Yan is an Evolutionary Macroecologist with a broad interest in biogeography, phylogenomics, and climate change ecology. She recently completed her Ph.D. at the Center for...

Grants-In-Aid of Undergraduate Research

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The Museum of Comparative Zoology ( MCZ), the Harvard University Herbaria ( HUH), and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University ( AA) are pleased to award small grants in support of faculty-supervised research by Harvard College undergraduates. Projects...

AA Research Talks - Multiple Speakers

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There will be three 10 min talks during today’s seminar. Registration link is for all three talks. Izzy Acevedo Research assistant in the Hopkins Lab Title: Sakura storytellers: Cherry blossoms as indicators of change in more-than-human environments...

REU student awarded ASPT Research Prize!

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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...

Welcome Dawson, new HUH Research Fellow!

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We were pleased to welcome Dr. Dawson White to the Herbaria earlier this month as our newest HUH Research Fellow! Dawson received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2019 and recently completed an NSF...

Welcome to our new Research Fellow!

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Welcome to our newest HUH Research Fellow, Dr. Andrea Berardi! Andrea is a plant ecological and evolutionary geneticist. She recently completed a postdoc in Cris Kuhlemeier’s Lab at the Institute of Plant Sciences in Bern, Switzerland where she worked on...

Welcome Zacky, HUH Research Fellow!

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We are excited to welcome Dr. Zacky Ezedin to the Herbaria as an HUH Research Fellow! Zacky received his Ph.D. from the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2023 where he worked on systematics and...

AA Research Talks - Marcin Nowicki

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Marcin Nowicki Research Assistant Professor University of Tennessee Title: Re-collections of diversity: Across the plant kingdom and beyond Watch Live on YouTube

Welcome Jenifer, HUH Research Fellow!

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We are pleased to welcome Dr. Jenifer de Carvalho Lopes to the Herbaria as one our newest HUH Research Fellows! Jenifer is an evolutionary biologist interested in plant systematics, taxonomy and biogeography of Neotropical lineages of Velloziaceae and...