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

Close Contact

The college-counseling suite in my high school, with its brochure-laden atrium, drawers of student files, and closed-door conferences, reminded...

by Nathan Heller

Brevia

Journal Opener

Photograph by Hillel Burger. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Copyright © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College This altar at the...

Life in Counterpoint

Few have ever faced the choice that Berenika Zakrzewski '04 had three years ago: Harvard or Juilliard? "It was exasperating," she...

by Craig Lambert

Biomedical Momentum

The curtain has begun to lift on Harvard's growing commitment to life sciences, particularly those involving biomedical research. Three events...

No Answers for O-

The day before I arrived in Kosovo, authorities in Pristina changed the name of the capital city's thoroughfare from Vladimir Lenin Street to...

by Lee Hudson Teslik

A Bioscience Portfolio

Two recent grants to faculties at the far geographic reaches of the University demonstrate the diversity and scale of Harvard's life-sciences...

Death of the Students' Dean

Archie C. Epps IIIJon Chase / Harvard News OfficeArchie C. Epps III, B.D. '61, Harvard College dean of students from 1971 to 1999, died August...

Allston Deliberations

Having hired a team of consultants and engineers one year ago to assess the University's existing real estate assets in Allston, as well as the...

Diggin' It: Summer in Cambridge

Expansion of Harvard's Cambridge campus continued this summer as the University built what will be its largest underground space: a subterranean...