John Harvard's Journal

Ancient Egyptian painted sarcophagus with detailed hieroglyphs and a woman's face.

Padimut at Harvard

A rare Egyptian mummy case is on display at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Sally Zeckhauser

University People

Appointments and departures

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Parenting, Redux

Junior Parents’ Weekend brings The Undergraduate a new perspective on the future.

by Christian Flow

At the Fresh Pond Golf Course in  Cambridge, Emily Balmert ’09 of the women’s golf team—the first Harvard woman to win the Ivy championship—swings into spring.

Class on the Grass

Golfer Emily Balmert, and the women’s varsity team, have reached milestones.

by Craig Lambert

The Rythmeter, circa 1944, came with a more complicated set of instructions than the earlier “scientific prediction dial” (see next image), reflecting increasingly precise knowledge of human reproduction—knowledge that Rock played no small part in advancing.

A Pioneer in Family Planning

A new exhibition honors John C. Rock, the Harvard Medical School professor whose research and advocacy were instrumental in the development of modern fertility treatments and contraception.

"A New Economic Reality"

The University’s financial gap measures in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Julio Frenk, as Mexico’s minister of health, administers oral polio vaccine to a baby in a rural community during National Health Week in 2005.

A Global Health View

A profile of Julio Frenk, new dean of the Harvard School of Public Health

Articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were projected onto Harvard buildings in December. The “60.30.1” light installation--created by artist Julie Mallozzi, then acting co-director of Harvard’s Film Study Center, with animation created by Norah Solorzano, a teaching assistant in the department of visual and environmental studies--was commissioned by the Film Study Center, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and the University Committee on Human Rights Studies.

Human Rights: Inalienable, Unfulfilled

Harvard marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Photograph courtesy of Harvard Kennedy School

Decisionmaking, Measured

A new interdisciplinary decision-science lab will host experiments from psychology, economics, and beyond.

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