John Harvard's Journal

At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages

The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Endowment Performance

Since Harvard Management Company established its current, highly diversified asset mix and investment strategies for the endowment in 1991...

University People

Senior Status David B. FithianPhotograph by Michael RodriguezJohn FoxPhotograph by Jim HarrisonEffective September 1, assistant dean of the...

"Roots" and Race

In June, a New York Times article raised a long-simmering issue: the origins and ancestry of Harvard's black students. The piece described the...

Dispatches from the Front

Interim Iraqi Government minister Nesreen Berwari's phone number, area code 914 (a New Rochelle exchange!), rings in Baghdad, a satellite trick...

University People

University Professors Laurence H. Tribe Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office George M. Whitesides Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News...

A Gift for Openness

When Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, described the library's fledgling Open Collections...

Russia Case Progresses

In late June, Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court in Boston issued a summary judgment clearing Harvard University of three...

Controlling Conflicts of Interest

Following a broad review begun in early 2003, Harvard Medical School (HMS) this May formally reaffirmed and updated its policies governing...

Letter from Phnom Penh

Editor's note: Arianne Cohen '03, a former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow, spent the last academic year in Cambodia. Now, while...

Harvard news and notes

Gender Milestone For the first time, slightly more women than men will enroll in the cohort of students entering Harvard College, making the...