2014

Summer student Henry Lin co-authors a paper with Origins Team member Avi Loeb and Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad (Smithsonian Observatory scientist) that suggest detecting CFC’s can be a used as a biomarker for detecting signs of life on earth-like exoplanets...

Andrew Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History and
 Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, has been awarded the 2014 Oparin Medal by the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (ISSOL). He received the award...

The University of Chicago will bestow an honorary degree on Andrew Knoll for his distinguished scholarship in Paleontology. Read more.

Harvard astronomers find 'mega-Earth'. Read the Gazette article.

Led by David Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, a team of Harvard researchers recently developed the first system for enabling proteins to evolve continuously in the laboratory, without...

Led by Peter Girguis, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, and Arpita Bose, a postdoctoral fellow in organismic and evolutionary biology, a team of researchers has demonstrated that the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris can use...

Peter Girguis is partnering with the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School on the Marine Science Internship program at Harvard, which provides a transformative research experience for local high school students. Read more.

View the video of Dimitar Sasselov's lecture at the Simons Foundation entitled " Other Earths and the Origins of Life".

Sarah Rugheimer, graduate student in the Department of Astronomy, and member of the Origins community, has been selected as one of eight Harvard Horizon Scholars for 2014. Read more. Watch Sarah's five-minute symposium talk.

View the video of Sarah Stewart's December 18, 2013 Science Research Lecture entitled "The Violent Origin of the Earth and Moon." The lecture was sponsored by the Harvard University Physics Department.