CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: CSHL history

Barbara McClintock: Free to discover

3/23/2020

Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock spent half her life at CSHL, enjoying the freedom to explore new ideas and ignore criticism. This is her journey. Read the story »

Nobel Prize day quiz

How much do you know about the Nobel Prize-winning science that happened at CSHL? Take our quiz to find out. Take the quiz »

A home like no other, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

11/7/2019

Hear why our campus, our community, and our collaborative nature makes us a place that so many scientists call "home." Watch the video »

Historic lab at CSHL transformed for future cancer research

10/30/2019

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo cut the ribbon for CSHL’s renovated Demerec lab space, marking the beginning of a new chapter for the historied building. Read the story »

Historic building—groundbreaking science

10/29/2019

The Demerec building has been monumental in scientific history. Now, a $75 million renovation of this celebrated labspace will define CSHL’s future. Read the story »

How one family secured the future of a laboratory

9/12/2019

The Robertson family gifts to CSHL in the early 1970s were of extraordinary importance, for without them the Laboratory might not have survived. Read the story »

How a lab and its model animals changed science

8/13/2019

The natural history of science at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory through the lens of animal research. Read the story »

Leading discovery

5/20/2019

Current discoveries about DNA and human genome position CSHL scientists to make life-changing breakthroughs that will improve the human condition. Read the story »

An essay from the President: Biology for the planet

5/16/2019

CSHL plant scientists are looking for solutions to the biggest questions in agriculture as environments are reshaped by climate change. Read the story »

Remembering John Cairns, CSHL Director, 1963-1968

5/9/2019

CSHL celebrates the achievements of the late Dr. John Cairns, lab director from 1963 to 1968. Read the story »

The case for open and inclusive science

6/8/2018

America must continue to a place where the most talented people in the world want to live, study and work. Read the story »

Toasting serendipity

11/21/2017

Four decades ago, scientists made a discovery that “completely transformed all of biology,” according to Nobelist James Watson. Read the story »

Big decisions

11/15/2017

David Micklos of the DNA Learning Center, and Miriam Rich, a research scholar, talk about the big issues of eugenics. Read the story »

Good genes, bad science

10/15/2017

On this episode, Base Pairs looks into the eugenics movement, including the record kept in CSHL. Read the story »

Science and architecture: Back to the future!

7/20/2017

3D images are a throwback to the past as CSHL and Centerbrook Architects rediscover a 1950s building that has been occupied by some of the Laboratory. Read the story »