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

El-Erian for the Endowment

More than a name and face will change at Harvard Management Company (HMC), the investment organization for the University’s endowment...

Marc Shell

Marc Shell Photograph by Stu Rosner Marc Shell is Babbitt professor of comparative literature, a professor of English, a MacArthur...

An Unconstrained Curriculum

The College curriculum of the future has begun to come into focus, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this autumn started to discuss...

A Collage of Colleges

“Why should all of the creative and liberating ideas for liberal education be left to the small residential liberal arts colleges?&rdquo...

President and Polity

President Lawrence H. Summers e-mailed a multi-thousand-word “letter to the community” on November 7, subsequently published as a...

For Sciences and Art

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in the throes of a major, multipurpose building boom, as shown in these autumn images. The site of...

Yesterday’s News

1911 Because more seniors wish to room in the Yard, the Corporation is likely to furnish the south entry of Thayer Hall with steam heat and...

Elsewhere

Since 2001, College students’ international experiences during their Harvard years—formal study abroad, research, work or public...

Growth Spurt, Growing Pains

From 603 full, associate, and assistant professors in 1999, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown to 700 as of this January—its...

“The Genius of the Balafon”

In West Africa, Neba Solo, born Souleymane Traoré in 1969, is often called “the genius of the balafon,” says Ingrid T...