Combining models with specimens from multiple MCZ departments, the new Marine Life exhibit in the Harvard Museum of Natural History immerses visitors in the New England coastal water environment and presents research from around the world. Read more about the exhibit in the Harvard Gazette.
The MCZ participates in an exhibit on brains and their development currently on display in Northwest Building at Harvard through March 2015. (February 2014)
Brooke Flammang, postdoctoral fellow in the Lauder Lab, used a new 3D laser imaging devise to show that dorsal and anal fins are not just stabilizers, but also propel fish forward. Harvard Gazette story, 4/20/2011
Professor Karel F. Liem, Henry Bryant Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology, Curator of Ichthyology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Honorary Associate and Former Master of Dunster House, died on September 3, 2009. July 2010 symposium in his honor is planned.
