News from 2014

John Wright Receives the 2014 Dean’s Distinction Award

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TEACHERS AS SCHOLARS: JOHN DOWLING’S “AMAZING BRAIN” LINKS HARVARD TO THE GREATER BOSTON EDUCATION COMMUNITY

John Dowling with The Amazing Brain class of 2014 An alternative approach to professional development in K-12 education, Teachers as Scholars (TAS) was founded in 1996 in an…

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NEW COURSE: MCB 170 [LAURA MAGNOTTI]

MCB 170: Brain Invaders: Building and Breaking Barriers in the Nervous System The brain has evolved a unique but very effective system to protect itself from invaders. In…

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NEW COURSE: MCB 68 [PROF. ETHAN GARNER AND PROF. JEFF LICHTMAN]

MCB 68: Cell Biology Through the Microscope MCB 68 explores three fundamental fields of eukaryotic cell biology: chromosome segregation, cell motility, and neuroscience. Each topic is approached from…

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CATHERINE DULAC TO DELIVER PRESTIGIOUS HARVEY LECTURE

Professor Catherine Dulac will present a Harvey Lecture on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at Rockefeller University in New York City. Her lecture, entitled “Molecular and Neural Sensing of…

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MOVING LIKE A TODDLER [SCHIER LAB]

(l to r) Alex Schier, Andi Pauli, Megan Norris, Eivind Valen,  and Guo-Liang Chew According to the British embryologist Lewis Wolpert, “it is not birth, marriage, or death,…

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