Announcements

Rowland wishes farewell to Director Cynthia Friend

July 10, 2019

On Friday, June 28, 2019, members of the Rowland Institute, both past and present, gathered at a reception to wish a fond farewell to Dr. Cynthia Friend as her time as Director of the Rowland Institute at Harvard came to a close. Dr. Friend held the position of Director for six years. Dr. Friend is the T.W. Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science at Harvard University and...

Dr. Samuel Sanders, Congreve Lab, awarded 2019 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship

June 25, 2019

Dr. Samuel Sanders, a postdoctoral fellow in the Congreve Lab, has been awarded the prestigious Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship which provides $90,000 of annual support over 2-3 years. Working under the supervision of Dr. Dan Congreve, Sam will use this funding... Read more about Dr. Samuel Sanders, Congreve Lab, awarded 2019 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship

Bloomberg article spotlights Mathis and RoLi Labs

June 21, 2019

A recent Bloomberg article on the use of animal research labs in developing artificial intelligence software and brain-computer interfaces features the work of three Rowland Fellows. The article spotlights the work of RF Mackenzie Mathis and her mice in the Adaptive Motor Control Lab, as well as the work with zebra fish done by both RF Drew Robson and RF Jen Li in the ...

RF Bryan Hunter receives the 2019 Nobel Signature Award from the American Chemical Society

April 16, 2019

Rowland Fellow Bryan Hunter, along with his Ph.D. advisor Harry B. Gray of Caltech, has received the 2019 Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry for his doctoral thesis. https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/programs/ACS-2019-national-award-winners/96/i37

The award was presented on April 2, 2019 at the ACS National Meeting in...

Prof. Harry B. Gray to speak at Rowland

March 8, 2019

Prof. Harry B. Gray from the California Istitute of Technology will be speaking at the Rowland Institute on Friday, March 15th at 11:00AM. Prof. Gray is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology. Prof. Gray will be presenting, “Living with Oxygen: Metal... Read more about Prof. Harry B. Gray to speak at Rowland

RF Dan Congreve featured in Harvard Gazette

March 5, 2019

For years, people have used near-infrared light for everything from night vision to remote controls, but Dan Congreve and his co-workers want to one day put it to work fighting cancer.

Read the full Harvard Gazette article here....

Adaptive Motor Control Workshop

February 1, 2019

Rowland Fellow Mackenzie Mathis and The Adaptive Motor Control Lab hosted a 2-day workshop on January 28th and 29th, 2019 at The Rowland Institute at Harvard. The workshop taught users to apply the deep learning toolbox they developed, called DeepLabCut, for estimating the poses of animals. Researchers from across the US (and UK... Read more about Adaptive Motor Control Workshop

RF Taute Lab receives 2019 Rowland Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Undergraduate Program Award

January 15, 2019

The Rowland Foundation has awarded the Rowland Institute at Harvard $100,000 for one year to continue the program that provides mentoring and supervisory experience for a postdoctoral fellow and hands-on research experience for an undergraduate research student working with postdoctoral fellow.

The project will focus on characterizing and comparing motility behavior in liquids and model complex environments in two well-known pathogens - Vbrio cholerae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa whose swimming motility has barely been studied despite long-recognized...

Catalyzing CO2

November 8, 2018

Imagine a day when - rather than being spewed into the atmosphere - the gases coming from power plants are instead captured and fed into catalytic reactors that chemically transform greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into industrial fuels or chemicals that emit only oxygen. It's a future that Rowland Fellow Haotian Wang says may be closer than many realize.

Read the full Harvard Gazette article...