Spencer Lee Lenfield

Spencer Lee Lenfield was a Ledecky Fellow during the 2009-2010 academic year. He graduated in 2012 with a degree in History and Literature. He will be attending Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship until mid-2015, where he is reading for a second bachelor’s degree in classics and philosophy.
Students prepare the Eliot House elephant to appear in the 375th anniversary parade.

Students |

Student voices from the 375th: braving the rain to enjoy parade and dancing

A student account of a memorably wet 375th anniversary gala.

Students |

Harvard students and leaders commemorate September 11

The University community bears witness with music, words, and fellowship.

An <i>Atta sexdens</i> forager shears off a fragment.

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2011

E.O. Wilson is coauthor of two new ant books

In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."

Anand Mahindra (third from left) and his wife, Anuradha Mahindra (at right), with Mr. Mahindra's sisters, Anuja Sharma (left) and Radhika Nath (second from left) at the Mahindra Humanities Center inauguration

University News |

The Mahindra Humanities Center is inaugurated at Harvard

The Mahindra Humanities Center is inaugurated at Harvard.

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2011

In pilot program, Harvard places faculty residents in graduate-student housing

The Graduate Commons Program places faculty residents in graduate-student housing.

An image from promotional materials from the event

Arts & Culture |

Contemporary classical concerts feature cactus, singing bowl as instruments

Concerts that feature a singing bowl, a wired cactus, strings played with the wooden back of the bow, and more

Daniel Rasmussen’s revised and enlarged senior thesis will be published this January.

Alumni | January-February 2011

Daniel Rasmussen's "American Uprising" covers the largest U.S. slave revolt

Daniel Rasmussen's new book rescues the forgotten facts of the largest slave revolt in U.S. history.

Books & Literary Life |

The Radcliffe Institute’s “Why Books?” conference

The Radcliffe Institute’s “Why Books?” conference touches on a timely theme.

Jan Ziolkowski

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2010

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library from Harvard University Press

A new series from Harvard University Press reintroduces works that mattered in the Middle Ages. With excerpts from two of the works.

For David Moolten, medicine and poetry have formed a symbiotic bond.

Alumni | September-October 2010

Profile of physician and poet David Moolten

Experiences as patient and doctor have shaped David Moolten’s commitment to writing.

Students |

School-sick: an undergraduate misses college after a summer abroad

Realizing you miss college after a summer abroad

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2010

Halfway through college, decisions close in

The Undergraduate, halfway through the College, finds time speeding up, in academics and in life.