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Naomi Pierce
Naomi Pierce is a member of National Geographic's Committee for Research and Exploration. She traveled to India for a site visit of one of their grants to learn about the research being done.
OEB Spring Break
Professor Scott Edwards and 13 students from OEB190: Biology and Diversity of Birds visited the highland rainforest near Volcan Baru in Panama over Spring Break for bird watching.
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Richard T. T. Forman, Professor of Landscape Ecology at the Graduate School of Design, speaks with members of the audience at a reception following his talk on Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change yesterday.
Andrew Berry
In our new Office Hours series, we interview some of Harvard's most colorful professors on issues related, or sometimes unrelated, to their field of expertise. In this edition, Professor Andrew Berry talks about Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the beauty of evolutionary theory.
Footwear Changes Running Stride
Shoe-wearing runners have adapted their gait to their footwear, according to a recent study led by Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel E. Lieberman ’86 and published in Nature magazine.
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Wildlife biologist Stephen Destefano and photographer Amy Stein discuss the increasingly blurred borderline between human development and wildlife at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on Saturday afternoon. Both Destefano's new book, "Coyote at the Kitchen Door", and Stein's new exhibit at the museum, "Domesticated: Modern Dioramas of our New Natural History", address this theme.
The Harvard Museum of Natural History
If you have the ability to access the Harvard Museum of Natural History at night, I wouldn't recommend exercising it. The sounds of creaking heating pipes and girders are all too perfect accompaniments to the macabre display.
