John Harvard's Journal

Ancient Egyptian painted sarcophagus with detailed hieroglyphs and a woman's face.

Padimut at Harvard

A rare Egyptian mummy case is on display at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Elbow Room

Arts and Sciences dean Jeremy R. Knowles starts his annual letter to faculty colleagues...

Virtual reality -- once a novelty confined to cybercafes -- can be a powerful tool, when used properly, for teaching Newtonian dynamics and mechanics to fifth- and sixth- graders or helping high-school students learn about electrostatic fields like the one on this page -- a dipole shown with test charge traces and field lines. Faculty members at the Graduate School of Education are finding exciting new ways of harnessing technology for pedagogic purposes.

Tangible Learning in a Virtual World

Years ago Gerald Lesser, now Bigelow professor of education and developmental psychology emeritus at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), was a key player in the development of the children's television show Sesame Street.

Not President Eliot's five-foot shelf. By this summer, the majority of Widener's collections will be stored off site in the Harvard Depository. How are users to have access to them?

Cataloging Library Needs

Calling for a new library for the sciences and for initiatives by the Harvard College Library...

Classics, Old and New

Harvard celebrated two architectural triumphs this winter: University Hall, one of its oldest buildings, has been sensitively updated...

Harry R. Lewis

A College Report Card

Much about the College's appearance -- undergraduate enrollment, the residential Houses -- remains constant. But a sense of underlying...

The Wages of Affluence

Endowed affluence

The Unstoppable Botterill

Athletes in front of and beneath the net

by Craig Lambert

Face-to-Face with Faculty

Faculty members and freshmen

Wizard of Treys

Basketball

by Craig Lambert

Janet E. Halley

A family-law scholar