A new app called Expeditions offers visitors with a mobile device a broader experience with notable plants and the history of plant exploration while walking through the Arnold Arboretum. Read more in the Harvard Gazette.
A new project by Harvard Divinity School student Steven Fisher shares narratives about the changing social and cultural meaning of outdoor experiences through the lens of an increasingly diverse Boston. Read more in the Harvard Gazette.
Deborah Blackwell, Comunicaciones del Arnold Arboretum [Read story in English] Steven Salido Fisher está realizando un trabajo venerable simplemente al escuchar las historias que las personas comparten desde sus corazones. El estudiante de la Escuela de Teología de Harvard (HDS, por sus siglas en inglés) está trabajando en una misión para darle una voz elevada […]
Researchers at Arboretum studying maple trees and ‘cold hardiness’ Q&A with Arboretum scientists Jake Grossman and Al Kovaleski on climate change and what it means for maple trees By Deborah Blackwell, Marketing & Communications Specialist This year’s dramatically fluctuating temperature cycles from seasonably cold days to atypically warm stretches and back again has affected […]
Arnold Arboretum fellows journey to a rainforest in Panama to examine how species persevere in face of climate change. Read more in the Harvard Gazette.
As David Mays walked through the snow-covered Central Woods at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University last month with one thing on his mind: saving the planet and the species that live on it. As he passed red oaks and eastern white pines, smelling the needles and touching the bark from around the temperate world, […]
The Arboretum’s Meadow Road masquerades as a park in 1860s Paris in Greta Gerwig’s film release of Little Women, a book published just a few years before the Arboretum’s founding.
This spring, the greenhouses in the Weld Hill Research Building at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University will be overflowing with phlox, fragrant flowers bursting with hues of violet, pink, red, and magenta. But it’s not their floral beauty or aroma that captivates Robin Hopkins, assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard. Hopkins, […]
In a historic collaboration, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University welcomed Chinese botanists from the North America-China Plant Exploration Consortium (NACPEC) on a joint expedition to the Appalachian Mountains to collect seed from North American plants to grow in scientific plant collections in China. Harvard Gazette»
Thirty-five years ago, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University began offering free programs for elementary school students called Field Study Experiences (FSE), opening the gates of nature and science to thousands of Boston Public School (BPS) children. The initiative—launched in 1984 with a request from the Boston schools to local museums to help enhance the […]
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