John Harvard's Journal
Padimut at Harvard
A rare Egyptian mummy case is on display at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.
Science's “Third Branch”
Why are doctors from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital working with Harvard astrophysicists? And why is Professor Jeff Lichtman...
Ethics in Practice
Every Tuesday afternoon at the Kennedy School of Government, over lunch, a group of 10 people debates ethical questions that, in one form or...
Faculty for Freshman Seminars
Ungraded freshmen seminars, introduced in 1959, were intended to introduce new College students to faculty members and to a...
Ready for Growth?
Harvard proposes to put shovels in the ground not only to build a new campus in Allston but, far more modestly, to put up a research and...
Yesterday's News
1912 Mrs. George D. Widener reveals plans to build a library at Harvard in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener ’07, who perished with...
Growth Spurt
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the past nine years than in the previous four decades. In a letter distributed to...
Keeping the Vibes
How do you play a broken record? “Take a picture of it,” says audio engineer David Ackerman, who heads the Audio Preservation...
Off the Fast Track
Slow down, please, said community members comprising the Harvard-Allston Task Force. May we take things one at a time? Of course, said Harvard...
The Moral Status of the Embryo
Is a blastocyst—an early-stage human embryo—a person? As part of the University’s efforts to encourage public dialogue about...
University People
Security Secretary Juliette N. Kayyem Kennedy School of Government lecturer in public policy Juliette N. Kayyem...