Announcements

Dr. Ercag Pince, Taute Lab, receives poster prize from Harvard FAS Postdoctoral Association

December 5, 2019

Dr. Ercag Pince, Postdoctoral Fellow in RF Taute’s Lab, received a poster prize from the Harvard FAS Postdoctoral Association at the Harvard Postdoctoral Research Symposium to be used towards travel to a conference. Read more about Dr. Ercag Pince, Taute Lab, receives poster prize from Harvard FAS Postdoctoral Association

Group photo of Adaptive Motor Control Lab

RF Mathis Lab awarded grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

November 14, 2019

Rowland Fellow Mackenzie Mathis’ Adaptive Motor Control Lab has been awarded a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), as a part of CZI’s Essential Open Source Software for Science program. The Adaptive Motor Control Lab was selected for...

Rowland Fellow Dan Congreve named 2019 Moore Inventor Fellow

October 18, 2019

Rowland Fellow Dan Congreve has been named one of the 2019 Moore Inventor Fellows. Dan is one of 5 fellows selected from more than 200 nominations from Research 1 universities, selected medical schools, and selected environmental research and patient care institutions across the country.

The Moore Inventor Fellowship supports scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in scientific discovery,...

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