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Making whoopee, coral style

Most species are content with just one form of reproduction, but not for the coral p. damicornis. These guys make babies sexually and asexually. Doctoral candidate David Combosch wants to know why.
September 27, 2013

MSC undergoes massive renovations as Center grows

In an ongoing effort to keep its neighbors in the loop about significant happenings at the Marine Science Center, Director Geoff Trussell recently sat down with the Lynn Item to talk about recent construction and plans for the Center's future.
September 17, 2013

Marine PhD wins national award

Chris Conroy, a Ph.D. student at the Marine Science Center in Nahant working in Dr. Jonathan Grabowski’s lab, has been awarded the American Fisheries Society’s Steven Berkeley Marine Conservation Fellowship.
June 06, 2013

Lego robots go for the gold

Local sev­enth and eighth graders in an after-​​school sci­ence club got an up-​​close look at real sci­en­tific research while vis­iting Northeastern’s Marine Sci­ence Center in Nahant, Mass.
May 17, 2013

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