John Harvard's Journal
Padimut at Harvard
A rare Egyptian mummy case is on display at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.
and Cultural
Before he narrated the poetic adventures of Mahalia Mouse, the female rodent who became a scientist (rather than the subject of a scientific...
Enlivening Science
An expressed aim of the curriculum review is to assure College graduates’ scientific literacy in the twenty-first century. Summarizing the...
Also Heard
[T]he fourth and last thing that I learned at Harvard Business School, and the thing that may be most important to the people here today, is to...
Where the Students Are
At each Commencement, Harvard confers 6,500 or so degrees, on everyone from College students who have navigated their undergraduate years to...
Aftershocks
In the wake of its March 15 vote that it “lacks confidence” in his leadership (see “At Odds,” May-June, page 55), the...
Honor Roll
Philip Fisher Howard Georgi Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Margo I. Seltzer Lino Pertile...
A Notable Dean
The appointment of Thomas professor of government and sociology Theda Skocpol as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)...
Approaching Africa
Since 1969, Harvard has had a Committee on African Studies (CAS), an interdisciplinary group of scholars who sponsor seminars and fund summer...
Harvard news shorts
University news of the past two months
Engineering Equity
The reports of the Task Force on Women Faculty (WF) and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), released on May 16, share a...