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How Plants Use Color to Tell Animals Their Fruit Is Good To Eat

September 26, 2018

Fruits come in a glorious rainbow of colors. Raspberries, kumquats, lemons, avocados, blueberries, figs; the colorful array rivals a 96-pack of Crayola crayons. But scientists have long debated whether fruits evolved their vibrant pigments to entice animals to eat them and spread their seeds. After all, some fruit eating — or frugivorous — seed-dispersers are color blind. Now, researchers show fruit color evolved in response to the visual abilities of local fruit-feasting animals. Animal Vi

Harvard undergrads spend summer studying environmental issues in China

Harvard undergrads spend summer studying environmental issues in China

September 26, 2018

A group of Harvard undergraduates spent the summer in China, working on solutions to an array of environmental problems ranging from examining ozone pollution’s effects on crops to analyzing household electricity demand to studying ways to remediate arsenic contamination of groundwater.

The summer internships extended from late June until mid-August and brought eight students to Beijing and Hong Kong, where they lived and worked at Beijing’s Tsinghua University and the...

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PPIUD Presentation at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

September 26, 2018
Mahesh Karra presented results from Sri Lanka to a large audience of students, faculty, and researchers. The title of his talk was "The Effect of Postpartum IUD intervention on Counselling and Choice: Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Stepped-Wedge Trial in Sri Lanka".