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

For Radcliffe: A "Founding Dean"

For Radcliffe: A "Founding Dean" Looking ahead: new Radcliffe dean Drew Gilpin Faust, acting dean Mary Maples Dunn, and President Neil L...

Refreshing the Fellows

The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the executive governing board of the University is officially titled, has returned to full...

Pay for Performance

Harvard Management Company's president, Jack R. Meyer, and its five best-performing portfolio managers earned compensation totaling $41.1...

Richard G. Heck Jr.

Philosopher Richard Heck earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Duke, studied philosophy at Oxford, and got his Ph.D. at MIT in 1991...

HIID, Dismantled

For many years, Harvard has moved gradually but consistently toward globalizing its mission and outreach, with new international programs in the...

Preserving Harvard’s large outdoor Henry Moore sculpture

The bronze Large Four Piece Reclining Figure by Henry Moore that has reclined on the grass in front of Lamont Library for almost 20 years is now...

University People

Doctor in the House Harvey V. Fineberg, Harvard’s provost, began a medical leave and underwent surgery December 16 for what was described...

Sharing the Wealth

For the second year in a row, the President and Fellows of Harvard College have authorized a larger-than-usual increase in the distribution from...

Quest for the Best

How to help academically distinguished, but economically and socially disadvantaged, high-school students succeed in college and later in life?...

The Faculty Weighs In, circa 1899

Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or not—let it pass—Dean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences...