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Rowland Fellow Shabnam Raayai featured in Harvard Gazette

photo of Shabnam Raayai

Rowland Fellow Shabnam Raayai is featured in a story published today in the Science & Tech section of the Harvard Gazette. The article focuses on her current work and that of the Raayai Lab. The Harvard Gazette article comes on the heels of their recently published article. The full Harvard Gazette article can be found…

Lars Caspersen (Raayai Lab) wins travel grant to present work at 74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

Lars Caspersen presenting at APS

Lars Caspersen won a travel grant of $1000 to join the American Physical Society (APS), Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) which took place in Pheonix, AZ, November 21-23, 2021. There, he presented his work on the effect of artificial denticles mimicking shark scales on flows, titled “Artificial Denticle-Covered Textures in Taylor-Couette Flows”….

Sept 30 & Oct 1, 2022 Rowland Reunion and Symposium

group shot from above of RIH Symposium

Alumni, staff, and researchers attended a symposium to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Rowland Fellows program and the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Rowland Institute. We had a great turnout and the event was a triumph!  It was amazing to hear about everyone’s current research and how their experiences at the Rowland have…

Rowland Fellows Featured in the Harvard Gazette

Harvard Gazette cover photo

August 10, 2022 The Harvard Gazette featured the Rowland Fellows in an article entitled, “Using designs by Mother Nature, guiding flies, making things glow.” To read the full article, click here….

Director Andrew Murray Presents to the Westminster School, London

Westminster School Crest

On March 15, 2022 Professor Andrew Murray, Director of the Rowland Institute at Harvard, gave a virtual presentation “Scientific Evolution: life, teaching, and research” to the Westminster School in London as a part of their Horizons program. This program attempts to give Westminster students a sense of the educational and research opportunities that are available…

In Memory of Howard Berg 1934 – 2021

January 3, 2022 Howard Berg, who was a Senior Fellow at the Rowland and a faculty member in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University passed away on December 30, 2021. Howard was appointed as a Senior Fellow by Dr. Edwin Land, the founder of the Rowland Institute, based on their shared interest in using…