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  [### Origins Visiting Scholar John Sutherland will receive the 2025 NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Studies – Stanley Miller Medal

 ](/news/origins-visiting-scholar-john-sutherland-will-receive-2025-nas-award-early-earth-and) January 29, 2025 

 "John D. Sutherland, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, will receive the 2025 NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Studies – Stanley Miller Medal. John's pioneering work on prebiotic chemical pathways and geochemical scenarios provides fresh insight into... 

 

 

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   [### Exciting News: Nobel Prize Awarded to Origins Faculty member Gary Ruvkun

 ](/news/exciting-news-nobel-prize-awarded-origins-faculty-member-gary-ruvkun) October 07, 2024 

 Dear Origins Community, We are thrilled to share that Origins Faculty member, Gary Ruvkun, receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Discovery of microRNA. Gary shares this award with Victor Ambros (UMass Medical) for elucidating a... 

 

 

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   [### Origins Graduate student Furkan Ozturk creates documentary "Cracking Chirality" 

 ](/news/origins-graduate-student-furkan-ozturk-creates-documentary-cracking-chirality) March 08, 2024 

 " Cracking Chirality," a twelve-minute film from Chemistry Shorts™, explores how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake may have set the... 

 

 

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   [### Origins Graduate student Furkan Ozturk awarded Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize 

 ](/news/origins-graduate-student-furkan-ozturk-awarded-gertrude-and-maurice-goldhaber-prize) March 08, 2024 

 Origins Graduate Consortium member, Furkan Ozturk, has been awarded the 2024 Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize. The Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize is awarded to recognize the most outstanding experimental and theoretical graduate students in the... 

 

 

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   [### Origins of Life Initiative welcomes our Inaugural Kavli-Laukien Postdoctoral Fellows Jenny Calahan and Xavier Portillo 

 ](/news/origins-life-initiative-welcomes-our-inaugural-kavli-laukien-postdoctoral-fellows-jenny) October 04, 2023 

 The Origins of Life Inititative is thrilled to announce our first Kavli-Laukien Postdoctoral Fellows, Jenny Calahan and Xavier Portillo. Jenny and Xavier have joined a community of faculty, senior researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates... 

 

 

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   [### Origins Graduate Student S. Furkan Ozturk publishes article : "Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed"

 ](/news/origins-graduate-student-s-furkan-ozturk-publishes-article-breakthrough%E2%80%99-could-explain) September 06, 2023 

 Origins Graduate Student S. Furkan Ozturk publishes a recent article surrounding "Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed". To read more please visit the following site. Papers cited in the news: Ozturk, S. Furkan, Liu... 

 

 

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   [### Origins Faculty member Juan Perez-Mercader publications 

 ](/news/origins-faculty-member-juan-perez-mercader-publications) May 08, 2023 

 "Starting from a homogeneous blend of non-biochemistry related substances, we use light to start a Polymerization Induced Self-Assembly (PISA) reaction that triggers the boot-up of micron scale chemical systems. After forming, these grow, move, implode... 

 

 

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   [### Origins Faculty member Professor Ann Pearson named PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences

 ](/news/origins-faculty-member-professor-ann-pearson-named-pvk-professor-arts-and-sciences) May 08, 2023 

 Congratulations to Origins Faculty member Ann Pearson, who has been named the PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences. This professorship, established through the generous gift of Peter Kwok in honor of the life work of William R. Fitzsimmons, who has served... 

 

 

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   [### Origins Federation Announced - March 4, 2023

 ](/news/origins-federation-announced-march-4-2023) March 04, 2023 

 The Origins of Life Initiative at Harvard University and partner centers at University of Chicago, ETH-Zurich, and University of Cambridge intend to create the Origins Federation, as announced today at the AAAS Meeting in Washington DC by Didier Queloz... 

 

 

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   [### Origins of Life Initiative announces Kavli-Laukien Postdoctoral Fellowship 

 ](/news/origins-life-initiative-announces-kavli-laukien-postdoctoral-fellowship) November 04, 2022 

 Kavli-Laukien Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative Applications are invited to the new Kavli-Laukien Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Origins of Life Initiative at Harvard University. The Kavli-Laukien Fellowship program... 

 

 

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   [### Origins Faculty member George Whitesides wins the 2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience 

 ](/news/origins-faculty-member-george-whitesides-wins-2022-kavli-prize-nanoscience) June 03, 2022 

 Congratulations to Origins Faculty member George Whitesides on his 2022 Kavali Prize in Nanoscience, read more here. 

 

 

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   [### The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award Origins Faculty member Andrew Knoll the prestigious 2022 Crafoord Prize for Geosciences.

 ](/news/royal-swedish-academy-sciences-will-award-origins-faculty-member-andrew-knoll) January 31, 2022 

 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has just announced that Origins faculty member, Andrew Knoll, will receive the 2022 Crafoord Prize in April, awarded this year for Geosciences. To read more please visit CNN and the Crafoord Prize site. 

 

 

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