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NEUROBIOLOGY IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCES AT HARVARD: A PERSONAL VIEW

During my years as an undergraduate, graduate student, and junior faculty member at Harvard, from 1953-1964, neurobiology was not recognized as a separate discipline. Indeed, the term neurobiology…

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TURNING UP THE HEAT ON PROTEIN FOLDING BY TURNING DOWN HEAT SHOCK FACTOR [DENIC LAB]

(l to r) David Pincus, Eric Solís, Vlad Denic No matter where you fall on the spectrum of libertarianism this election year, you can hopefully appreciate that the…

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CRISPR CELL LINEAGES [SCHIER LAB]

The cells in a multicellular organism develop via a lineage that starts with the fertilized egg. Lineage trees describe the divisions and specializations of cells over time, as…

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MCB STUDENT TO GIVE HARVARD COMMENCEMENT SPEECH

Jiang He, a graduate student from the Zhuang Research Lab, has been chosen as the graduate student winner of Harvard’s 2016 Commencement Student Orations Competition. Jiang’s speech will…

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UNDERGRADUATE INITIATIVES: HEALTHPALS

Jack Huang At freshman orientation in 2012, MCB concentrator Jack Huang ’16 was understandably overwhelmed. After a flurry of five-minute presentations from seemingly every agency and acronym on…

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MCO STUDENTS TAKE THE HELM OF JOURNAL OF EMERGING INVESTIGATORS

MCO students involved with JEI: (l to r) Olga Minkina, Haneui Bae, Jamilla Akhund-Zade, Olivia Ho-Shing, David Tomasek, Alexandra (Sandy) Mattei Like so many first-year graduate students, Jamilla…

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MCO STUDENT FINDS CAREER PATH THROUGH OUTREACH

MCO graduate student Christina Saak of the Gibbs Lab loves to teach. The international student from Germany applied to Harvard on a whim, never expecting to be accepted,…

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