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5 unusual facts about Cold Spring Harbor


East Woods School

The school serves students from many local communities, including Oyster Bay, East Norwich, Centerport, Cold Spring Harbor, Locust Valley, Huntington, Glen Cove, Syosset and Muttontown.

Lilug

It meets monthly on the second Tuesday of each month on the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Woodbury Campus, in the Woodbury Auditorium.

McClintock Ridge

The ridge was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Barbara McClintock of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1942–67, although she continued full-time research, supported by Carnegie, until her death.

Randall Tolson

Randall Tolson (1912 – 1954) was a clockmaker who lived in Cold Spring Harbor, New York for most of his adult life.

Stephanie Losee

Stephanie Losee (born 1965 and raised in Cold Spring Harbor, New York) is an American author, journalist, and Managing Editor for Dell Global Communications.


Eugenics Record Office

The Eugenics Record Office (ERO) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States was a center for eugenics and human heredity research in the first half of the twentieth century.


see also

Drosophilidae

More extensive identification characteristics can be found in "Drosophila: A Guide to Species Identification and Use" by Therese A. Markow and Patrick O'Grady, (Academic Press, 2005) ISBN 0-12-473052-3 or "Drosophila: A Laboratory Handbook" by M. Ashburner, K. Golic, S. Hawley, (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2005).