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News from 2019

Holiday Gift Drive and Bake Sale Benefit Rosie’s Place Women’s Shelter

For the second year in a row, items donated to the annual MCB gift drive went to Rosie’s Place, a women’s shelter in downtown Boston. This year’s drive,…

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Harmit Malik to Give 2019 Prather Lectures, November 12, 13, 14

Harmit Malik faculty profile, Malik lab

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2019 MCB Holiday Gift Drive and Harvest Bake Sale (November 25) to Benefit Rosie’s Place!

For the second year in a row, donations to MCB’s annual holiday gift drive will go to Rosie’s Place, the oldest women’s shelter in the U.S. Rosie’s Place…

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Happy Halloween!

Greetings from the first-year MCO graduate students. "Russell the Rhino: an extremely accomplished MCO Explorer with just one missing badge, standing next to a floating chimney that will…

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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2019 MCB Staff Badminton Tournament!

1st – LJ Connelly (MCB/CBS Core Admin – Finance) and Alex Gonsalves (Northwest Building – Shipping and Receiving ) 2nd – Katie Scrocca (MCB Core Admin – MCB Graduate…

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Nancy Hegarty Honored as a Harvard Hero

In 1975, amid the crush of people who flooded into Boston to watch the World Series, Nancy Hegarty had an epiphany. “The roads were a sea of people,”…

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Catherine Dulac Elected to American Philosophical Society

MCB faculty Catherine Dulac has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), one of the most venerated scholarly organizations in the United States. The APS is a…

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Venki Murthy Comments on SEAS’s Move to Allston

MCB Chair, Venki Murthy, is quoted  in the Harvard Crimson. Murthy lab website    

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16th Annual Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Symposium Explores the Richest Biological Reservoir on Earth: The Microbial World

Microbes (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists) are ubiquitous on earth and affect every part of our lives.  Yet they are mostly invisible, and the vast majority of…

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