Last week, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) renewed its memorandum of understanding with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for their shared scientific library, the MBLWHOI Library. Established at the MBL in 1888 by scientist Cornelia Clapp, the Library began to collaborate on collections with WHOI when the latter was founded in 1930. Today, the MBLWHOI
Neuroscientist and Grass Foundation Trustee Melissa Coleman reflects on the major influences on her career path, including her interactions at MBL as a student in the Neural Systems & Behavior course and as a Grass Fellow. Coleman is currently on the faculty of the W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont, McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges
Celeste Cruse, a 7th-grade teacher at Lawrence School in Falmouth, spent two weeks in arctic Alaska in July with environmental scientists from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). Her stay at Toolik Field Station was through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Teachers program. By Celeste Cruse During my recent adventures in the Arctic,
By Diana Kenney After six years of microscope development at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Shalin Mehta moved in July to Chan Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub, an independent, nonprofit medical research institute based in San Francisco. CZ Biohub is a philanthropic effort initiated by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, last year.
The MBLWHOI Library is a founding institution of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This post is a brief look at how two of the Library’s most recent Catherine N. Norton Fellows, Beatrice Steinart and Sean Cohmer, have used books from BHL’s collection to support their research. By Matthew Person In 2016, Beatrice Steinert, recent recipient
While doing research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, Sindy Tang learned of a remarkable organism: Stentor coeruleus. It’s a single-celled, free-living freshwater organism, shaped like a trumpet and big enough to see with the naked eye. And, to Tang’s amazement, if cut in half it can heal itself into two healthy
By Alison Crawford A panel of journalists and scientists hunkered down at the MBL on June 7-8 to evaluate more than 2,000 images and videos of nature, vividly magnified by light microscopy — from chemical compounds to luminous biological specimens. The task at hand was to select the winners of the 42nd Nikon Small World
The M.I.T. Knight Science Journalism Fellows spent Thursday, May 4, discovering MBL research. By KSJ@MIT After lunch, it was time for cuttlefish. So 13 of us — the 2016-17 KSJ fellows, a spouse, and staff members — crowded around a pair of tray-like tanks at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to watch
Neil Shubin, interim co-director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and Associate Dean for Academic Strategy at the University of Chicago, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the APS is the nation’s oldest learned society. Read more
MBL Society member Rita Colwell, a world-renown microbiologist, will receive one of the top awards in science and technology, the 2017 Vannevar Bush Award. Colwell is a member of the MBL President’s Scientific Advisory Council, a former MBL Trustee (2012-2015), and she served on the faculty of the MBL Microbiology course (now Microbial Diversity) in