Graduate

Our graduating class answers questions on lab-life balance Today, 37 CCB graduate students receive their graduate degree. They trained with twenty-one different faculty advisors and came to CCB from nine origin countries: Canada, China, Ireland, Korea...

The fashion designer/engineer earns a coveted ACS honor This year, the American Chemical Society (ACS) celebrated the 10th annual CAS Future Leaders program, which awards early-career scientists with essential scientific, business and leadership training...

For excellence in teaching and dedication to departmental service CCB's May faculty meeting opened with an annual ceremony: Gregg Tucci, a literal Harvard Hero, and Professor Dudley Herschbach, a hero of many realms, presented the 2019 Dudley R...

Live recordings of neural electricity could revolutionize how we see the brain By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy Red and blue lights flash, and a machine whirs like a distant swarm of bees. In a cubicle-sized room, Yoav Adam captures something no one has ever...

With molecular data storage, cat videos could outlast us all By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy From books to floppy disks to magnetic memory, technologies to store information continue to improve. Yet threats as simple as water and as complex as cyberattacks...

The warming Arctic permafrost may be releasing more nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, than previously thought By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy About a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is covered in permafrost. Now, it turns out these permanently frozen...

The Derek Bok Center names their 2019 - 2020 cohort of excellent graduate student teachers Liz Johnson (Betley Lab) and Emily Kerr (Gordon Lab), earned their first Pedagogy Fellowships in the Fall of 2018. Now, in their second term, the two graduate...

Researchers have discovered how antibiotic-resistant bacteria construct their defense system, which could lead to new treatments for untreatable infections By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy Superbugs, also known as Gram-negative bacteria, are causing a global...

CCB lecturers, preceptors, and graduate students earn recognition for their excellence in teaching After each semester, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning recognizes our highest rated teachers, as determined by the students they teach. Award...

Study unravels how microbes produce key compound used to fight cancer By Peter Reuell For decades, scientists and doctors have known that bacteria in soil were capable of manufacturing streptozotocin, an antibiotic compound that is also an important...