Congratulations to MCZ Faculty-Curator Emeritus Edward O. Wilson, recipient of the 2016 Human Society of New York’s Humane Medal. He was recognized for his “lifetime of work; his pioneering efforts to protect the biodiversity of our planet”.
MCZ Faculty-Curator Naomi Pierce was one of five recipients of the Verrill Medal from the Yale Peabody Museum. The award is the highest honor given by the Curators of the Yale Peabody Museum, and is intended to honor “signal practitioners in the arts of natural history and natural sciences.” Past recipients from the MCZ include Ernst Mayr and Edward O. Wilson. Five medals were awarded this year, in part to celebrate the Sesquicentennial of...
Congratulations to MCZ Faculty-Curator Naomi Pierce, one of five grant recipients of the second cycle of grants awarded from the Harvard Global Instituted (HGI). HGI grants are designed to support research initiatives that develop innovative solutions to global problems by drawing on collaboration of faculty within Harvard and with colleagues overseas.
Edward O. Wilson talks to The New York Times about his recent book, "Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life." His charming and honest response to questions regarding his bold idea for setting aside roughly 50 percent of the planet as a wildlife reserve can be read in the March 1, 2011 edition and ...
Ricardo Perez de la Fuente, MCZ Postdoctoral Fellow in the Farrell Lab, is part of a new international study that found pollination in an extinct group of flies preserved in Spanish amber for more than a hundred million years. Read more about the research here.
