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

Money and Military Recruiting

With a fiscal gun at the University’s head, Harvard Law School (HLS) has reversed its position on military recruiting on its campus. The...

University People

Vice President’s Ciao Ann E. Berman Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Vice president for finance Ann E. Berman will...

Reforesting the Yard

Savaged by insects, ravaged by disease and old age, the elms of Harvard Yard were much diminished by 1990 (see photographs, below), when Michael...

Governing Harvard: A Faculty View

At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on September 27, its dean, William C. Kirby, said, “We begin this academic year having...

Allston Options and Actions

With a near-term goal of establishing an expanded campus footprint across the Charles River during the next decade, Harvard released on June 2 a...

2005-2006 Ledecky Fellows

Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-2006 academic year will be junior John A. La Rue and senior...

Catherine Dulac

“The sense of smell was very poorly understood,” says professor of molecular and cellular biology Catherine Dulac, until a seminal...

A Robust Decade at the Business School

Kim B. Clark’s move from Allston to Idaho—he became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call...

A New Dean at HBS

Jay O. Light Harvard Business School Jay O. Light, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. professor of business administration, became acting dean of...

University Housing on the Rise

More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students but some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in...