Museum of Comparative Zoology - Harvard University

Encyclopedia of Life at the MCZHarvard University is one of the Encyclopedia of Life's (EOL) five cornerstone institutions. Harvard's MCZ hosts the Education & Outreach component, which is developing EOL as a resource for public audiences, from school children to citizen scientists. The EOL is a constantly evolving, online encyclopedia that will offer scientifically verified, multimedia web pages for all 1.8 million known species of Earth's living organisms.

MCZ News & Events

Hopi Hoekstra has been appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Listen to the latest EOL podcast and Google Earth tour on monarch butterflies. The One Species at a Time podcast series is supported by the MCZ.

The MCZ is part of a multi-institutional initiative that seeks to better integrate museum collections into classroom teaching. Read more about the AIM-UP initiative in the Harvard Gazette.

The EOL team has gathered together a veritable treasure trove of biodiversity information, videos, podcasts and educational materials and made them available through iTunes University.

The MCZ's 2011-2012 Annual Report is available to view online.

Naomi Pierce and members of her lab discuss behavioral ecology of species interactions in the Harvard Gazette. Pierce gave a recent talk as part of the "Evolution Matters" lecture series at HMNH.

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