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

Brevia

College Change Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross announced in mid July that Patricia O’Brien, deputy dean for the past two years and...

Therapeutic Cloning Research Approved

Scientists at Harvard and the affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston announced on June 6 that they had begun experiments with somatic cell...

Footfalls...and Failures

As the summer months trickle through my sweaty fingers, September looms, bringing with it the first of my Lasts. For the last time, I will...

by John A. La Rue

New Undergraduate Fellows

Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2006-2007 academic year will be senior Casey N. Cep and sophomore...

The Pulse of a New Medical Curriculum

When he found out he would spend his third year of medical school based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, rather than rotating among...

Every Play Breaks a Record

Watch him this fall, if you can: football players of Clifton Dawson’s caliber don’t show up very often in Harvard Stadium. The...

by Craig Lambert

Doctoring 101

What does it mean to be a physician? How do I work as part of a team? Which career options lie ahead? What’s it like to watch a patient...

How Not to Fumble

Clifton Dawson has become a standout running back because of what he has done, but he has also excelled at not doing something: fumbling the...

Education Executive

Kathleen McCartney, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s (HGSE) new dean, has already shown she can handle controversy with poise. Three...

Football: Off-Field Incidents

Head football coach Tim Murphy suspended team captain Matthew C. Thomas ’06 (’07) indefinitely after the Harvard University Police...