John Harvard's Journal
At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages
The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.
Research Roster
Harvard hums with research. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, the University received $429 million in sponsored-research support...
Science and Politics and Stem Cells
Scientists became alarmed this spring when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled a meeting to review applications for federally...
Wage Wrangling
The sit-in capped a two-year-old campaign organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and aimed at securing a standard minimum...
Addressing Allston
The wish list for Harvard's recently acquired 100 acres in Allston is long and growing: graduate-student housing, a museum, conceivably a whole...
Trove of Tomes
On a Saturday in April, two vans from New York drove up to Langdell Library at the Law School and off-loaded about a thousand early English law...
Arts Transition
At a special dinner in May, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy Knowles ended his lighthearted remarks by presenting a pair of gifts...
Education Angels
His nine-year deanship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education concluded, Jerome T. Murphy still fizzes with ideas about public schooling...
University People
Richard E. Oldenburg '54 was elected president of the Board of Overseers for 2001-2002, his last year of service on the board. He succeeded...
Lisa McGirr
"My one regret about being an Americanist," says Lisa McGirr, who has just been promoted to associate professor of history, "is...
Dorm of Bread and Honey
Several years ago, the Jordan residential cooperatives, adjacent to Radcliffe Quad at the intersection of Shepard and Walker Streets, became...