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...

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 physics as a lens to understand how organisms perceive their surroundings. In Dr. Land’s case, the organisms were humans and the perception was sight; for Howard, the organisms were bacteria and the perception was smell, or more precisely,...

The Westminster School is hosting a series of talks by students and faculty at US universities to give Westminster students a sense of what is going on at university campuses in terms of the educational and research opportunities. Rowland Fellows are participating in this series and...