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What Makes Fish Fast?
Harvard Magazine spoke with George V. Lauder about studying the speed of sharks and tuna.
Summering with Sharks
The Harvard Gazette covered a recent research collaboration between George V. Lauder and Dakota Law of Brown University.
Tale of the Tunabot Told To The Harvard Gazette
The Harvard Gazette interviewed George V. Lauder about his work on the Tunabot, a groundbreaking fish robot that swims as efficiently and quickly as its often-canned real-life counterpart. The results of recent research conducted by the Lauder Lab (in conjunction with the University of Virginia) on the flexibility of this fleet fish are published in Science Robotics.
George V. Lauder Receives Joseph S. Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in Ichthyology
George V. Lauder was honored at a recent meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) with the Joseph S. Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in Ichthyology. The award recognizes a member of ASIH for an outstanding body of work. The award is granted principally on the basis of the quality of the awardee’s research; consideration is also given to educational and service impacts of the individual’s career.
George V. Lauder Named Harvard College Professor
George V. Lauder is one of just five faculty members to receive this prestigious award! The five-year appointment recognizes excellence in research and education, and includes a semester of paid leave as well as as extra research support.
Biomimetics Breakthrough: George V. Lauder and team of researchers create first artificial shark skin
Cover of The Journal of Experimental Biology
Image of flexible plastic foil (A, B) created from scan of single denticle (C).
It took more than a year to turn a single denticle taken from a small piece of mako shark skin into the flexible fascimile pictured above.
Click on the links below for media coverage of this groundbreaking research.
The Ichthyology Department recently added of the ocean’s top predators to its research collection. The juvenile (< 1 year old) Carcharodon carcharias, or great white shark, is over five feet long and weighs nearly 100 pounds!
First Paper of 2014 Available for Download!
Dr. Lauder recently spoke with CNN International about great white sharks. Click on the image below to explore an interactive graphic from that interview.
Read about synchronized stingray swimming in a new paper coauthored by Erin Blevins
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