Professor Pfister featured in the Harvard Gazette: For Harvard professors, these are a few of their favorite things
December 3, 2015
"A close-up shot of Pfister’s favorite object, a maple bowl, reveals fungi growing through the wood." (2015) HARVARD GAZETTE
Harvard Gazette
“When I see them, I just can’t help myself,” said Harvard’s Donald Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany, who has been collecting wooden bowls for years. He said his first, bought a “long time ago,” was likely utilitarian in nature, “for making salad. And then you begin to realize they are much more than that.” Read more
