The Program for Scientifically-Inspired Leadership (PSIL), founded and led by Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in MCB and CPB Dominic Mao, is returning to India this January to…
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Neuroscience Team Expands to Meet Growing Demand
Neuroscience is consistently in the top ten most popular concentrations for Harvard undergraduates, a phenomenon Ryan Draft, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Neuroscience and advisor to class of…
MCB 149_History of Molecular Biology
I am old enough (born in 1943) and the field of molecular biology is young enough (it too was born in 1943) that I lived through the entire…
Staff Spotlight: Clark Magnan, Biology Teaching Labs Manager
Life sciences lab courses require far more than textbooks and paper. Prepwork for a lab course may include ordering reagents or components, mixing solutions, arranging or assembling lab…
Japan Summer Science Undergraduate Research Program (JSSURP) Expands to New Sites and Disciplines
Years ago, a Harvard undergraduate named Takao Hensch decided to spend a year conducting research in Japan. But lining up a position overseas proved tricky. “I put it…
MCB Concentrator to Build Biotech Startup
“I believe that sometimes when you know exactly what you want to do in ten years, you should just do it now.” So says Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz, formerly…
MCB WELCOMES THREE PRECEPTORS
MCB is pleased to welcome three new preceptors to the department. Preceptors are full-time equivalent faculty members who are passionate about education and teaching at the university level. …
MCB STUDENTS EARN PRESTIGIOUS RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS
(l to r) Garrett Lam, Venki Murthy and Grace Huckins Five Harvard undergraduates will begin courses at the University of Oxford next year under the ultra competitive Rhodes…
SCINOTE: UNDERGRADUATE ENTREPRENEUR IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
Student by day, Executive Director by night, neuroscience concentrator Yi Zhang, class of 2017, moonlights as the mastermind behind SciNote, a science blog and non-profit education organization that…
