For Harvard Biologists, Volleyball is Serious Business


Published On: August 22nd, 2009

VolleyballSure, Florian Engert is a Harvard molecular biologist studying activity-dependent synaptic plasticity. But what the guy is really into is volleyball.

“It’s the most serious thing going on this summer,” Engert told the Boston Globe, with what may have been more than a little tongue in his cheek.

Harvard’s summer pickup volleyball has morphed into a months-long tournament with dozens of teams and weeks of playoffs. It’s called the Rhino Cup, named for a pair of rhino statues outside the bio labs. The trophy is a rhino, perched on a plastic lab cylinder, and balancing a volleyball on its horn, the Globe says. The historical origins are a bit mysterious, but the first tourney may have been put together back in the ’80s by a guy who is now a genetics professor at Cornell.

They tournament isn’t limited to biologists, but they do seem to play a prominent role. “If you’re good at volleyball, you have this extra coolness,” a guy who studies plant immune systems told the Globe.

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