CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: CSHL history

Row, row, row your raft: The CSHL 6th annual raft race

9/20/2021

The sixth annual handmade raft race capped the summer of 2021 at the Laboratory. Watch the video »

CSHL serves up its 30th season of volleyball

8/3/2021

People have been playing volleyball at CSHL for decades. The league returned for its 30th season in the summer of 2021. Read the story »

Rebuilding history: The Cold Spring Harbor seawall

7/30/2021

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is rebuilding the harbor’s 170-year-old seawall using modern construction and its original stones. Read the story »

CSHL alumna donates her Nobel-Prize winning lab notebooks

4/13/2021

A new CSHL digital archive chronicles the Nobel Prize-winning work of Carol Greider. Read the story »

LIVE At the Lab: Adenovirus – A look back at early CSHL research

4/9/2021

President and CEO Bruce Stillman and Dean of Academic Affairs Terri Grodzicker discuss their adenovirus research in the 1980s. Watch the video »

Bridging lessons from the HIV/AIDS pandemic to COVID-19

3/24/2021

A new NEH-funded annotated digital archive collects the recollections and findings of HIV/AIDS researchers in a way helpful to today’s researchers. Read the story »

1,100 CSHL heroes

1/6/2021

In 2020 the Laboratory pivoted some of its research to COVID-19. We opened a new organoid facility and celebrated people working through the pandemic. Read the story »

CSHL is changing scientific exchange

5/27/2020

The Lab leads the way in moving from on-site meetings and courses to virtual modes of scientific exchange. Read the story »

Carol Greider: Nobel Prize-winning rogue biologist

3/31/2020

CSHL alumna Carol Greider won the Nobel Prize and is a champion for diversity. But her dyslexia almost derailed her career before it began. Read the story »

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 »