With field work on hold during the pandemic, MCZ Faculty-Curator of Invertebrate Zoology Gonzalo Giribet discovered a passion (and incredible eye) for bird photography.... Read more about Zoologist, his field work on hold, falls for wildlife bird photography

Brenda Tindal, an award-winning educator and scholar from the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., has been named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. Read the full announcement in the Harvard Gazette.  Read more about Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

Congratulations to MCZ Faculty-Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Javier Ortega-Hernández, recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award! This award is in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors in the context of their organizations' missions.

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The Harvard Museums of Science and Culture (HMSC) celebrates Women’s History Month with the online exhibit Women of the Museum, 1860–1920: Behind-the-Screens at the Museum of Comparative Zoology which features extensive materials from the Ernst Mayr Library Special Collections and Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 

Through her careful research on the roles, lives, working...

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Scientific Specimens Are Going Online, But Much Remains Hidden In Storage

MCZ's Faculty-Curator of Ornithology Scott Edwards, and other museum staff around the country, talk to NPR about current programs to make specimen data available online. 

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Read about research led by former postdoc Katrina Jones, working in the Stephanie Pierce lab and MCZ Vertebrate Paleontology, in the Harvard... Read more about Study challenges accepted notion of mammal spine evolution