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CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: CSHL history

The Adenovirus Gazebo

6/26/2025

It’s not just any gazebo—it’s a meeting place, a scenic overlook, and a monument to CSHL’s decades of revolutionary genetics research. Read the story »

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President’s essay: We are science, and science is crucial

6/2/2025

With public research funding under threat in the U.S., CSHL President Bruce Stillman outlines the stakes for people in our communities and abroad. Read the story »

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The other side of the harbor

3/13/2025

Affordable, nearby, off-campus housing ensures CSHL’s young scientists can focus on pursuing lifesaving, world-changing research. Read the story »

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No Two Plants

2/11/2025

CSHL postdoc’s experimental short film honors the legacy of Barbara McClintock, a continuing source of inspiration for women and girls in science. Read the story »

Nature is trying to tell you something

2/3/2025

Former Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientist Richard Roberts won the Nobel Prize in 1993. Here, he recalls the “failure” that made him famous. Read the story »

From trading faxes to changing lives

1/14/2025

In 1991, then-CSHL Investigator David Beach and future CSHL Trustee Charles Sherr made a serendipitous discovery. They’d each isolated the same gene. Read the story »

image of the Cold Spring Harbor Village Firehouse moving across the harbor circa 1930s

The Firehouse

12/26/2024

A lightly used Firehouse was one of the best gifts the Laboratory received in 1930. The only problem? It was on the wrong side of the harbor. Read the story »

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The 2024 CSHL Volleyball Final

12/24/2024

Eight teams entered the season on equal footing. Now, only two remain. But there can be only one champion. Press play to watch it all unfold. Watch the video »

Where are they now?

12/9/2024

The CSHL School of Biological Sciences opened in 1999. Today, its graduates have become leaders in research, academia, and industry. Here’s how. Read the story »

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100 years of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Association

11/11/2024

A look back on the remarkable history of the group that helped turn Cold Spring Harbor, NY, into a leading destination for breakthrough bioscience. Read the story »

CSHL’s oldest haunts

10/31/2024

These buildings have weathered oceans of time to be here. Pull back the veil and cross over into CSHL’s storied past for a closer look. Read the story »

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Science Meets Art at CSHL

8/12/2024

Scientists, artists, and other luminaries came together for a summer festival celebrating CSHL’s Celia & Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program. Read the story »

image of Oscar Riddle seated between Milislav Demerec and Albert Francis Blakeslee. Standing behind them, are their colleagues Margaret Kaylor Kuntz, Eunice White, and Isabel Griffin.

A century of women’s health breakthroughs

7/22/2024

Oscar Riddle identified the hormone behind lactation in 1933. The discovery at CSHL continues to inspire research on women’s health and breast cancer. Read the story »

Barbara McClintock’s corn

6/16/2024

You’ve heard about Barbara McClintock’s Nobel Prize-winning research on corn genetics, but what about the corn itself? Read the story »

image of Katalin Karikó, Bruce Stillman, and Z. Josh Huang at the 2023 CSHL Recombinant DNA meeting

President’s essay: The continuous cycle of discovery

5/30/2024

CSHL President & CEO Bruce Stillman discusses our institution’s societal impacts and global connections as forces for further scientific progress. Read the story »

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