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

Yesterday’s News

1911 Witter Bynner 02 writes the Bulletin to protest Harvards refusal to allow Emmeline Pankhurst to address the Harvard Mens League for Woman...

Susanne Ebbinghaus

The recently appointed Hanfmann curator of ancient art at the Harvard University Art Museums and a lecturer on the classics, Susanne Ebbinghaus...

Interim Agendas

Although Derek Bok and Jeremy R. Knowles are serving as president and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), respectively, on an...

An Allston Metamorphosis?

Harvard's first science complex in Allston will be big by any measure. One thousand people will work in a facility designed as four buildings...

Adios, Early Admissions

Harvard College has ended its early admissions deadline. Beginning in the fall of 2007, students applying for admission to the class of 2012...

Controversial Visitor

Even before he arrived in the United States for a 12-day speaking tour, Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran, stirred controversy...

Bigger Biology

When a first draft of the human genome was sequenced in 2001, biology suddenly became much bigger. The genomethree billion DNA letters long...

Brevia

Nobel NotablesTwo alumni have won Nobel Prizes in science. Roger D. Kornberg ’67, JF ’76, Winzer professor in medicine at Stanford University...

Sciences and Gender

Women are underrepresented in academic science and engineering, according to a report issued in September by the National Academies, not because...

Open for Business

Before telegrams became scarce, the Japanese artist On Kawara would send them with the message I AM STILL ALIVE. Normally he would sign them...

by Casey N. Cep