John Harvard's Journal

Padimut at Harvard

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Advising Adventures

In the course of overhauling the College curriculum, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deferred undergraduates’ selection of a...

Brevia

Radcliffe Institute Interim Dean Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Barbara J. Grosz Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz, a...

Practically Perfect in Every Way

In small white rooms lit by fluorescent lamps and littered with empty soda bottles or coffee cups, undergraduates often find themselves heading...

by Casey N. Cep

Rebound & Transition

Harvard has never won an Ivy League basketball championship. Changing that legacy, which dates from 1955 (the first year of play in the league)...

by Craig Lambert

Sports Wrap

SoftballThe softballers (31-15, 15-6 Ivy) won the league championship, with Ivy Pitcher of the Year Shelly Madick ’08 (16-6) tossing a...

Attend to the Cursed

Few who stood at a Harvard podium during Commencement week mentioned the war in Iraq. Joshua Patashnik '07, of Adams House and San Diego, did do...

Interim Accomplishments

When he was summoned back to Massachusetts Hall in February 2006, interim president Derek Bok told a group of Harvard administrators last...

Developing Deans, Calendar Consensus

Beyond what he characterized last October as a “formidable agenda” of substantive work, Derek Bok pursued less publicized ways to...

Harvard Portrait: Annette Lemieux

Though she’s been called a conceptual artist, “That’s just for lack of a better term,” says Annette Lemieux, professor...

Managing Harvard: A New Deal?

Editor’s note: President Derek Bok, who wrote annual reports on the University during his service from 1971 to 1991, did so again at the...