John Harvard's Journal
Can Harvard’s Football Team Repeat Its Ivy League Success?
Despite personnel losses, Crimson captain Xaviah Bascon is upbeat about the 2026 season.
Exemplary Contributors
With great pleasure, the editors recognize four contributors to Harvard Magazine during 2006, awarding each $1,000 for their distinguished...
A general-education proposal to replace Harvard’s Core curriculum is debated
After three years of inconclusive work on a new general-education component for the College, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appears to...
Faculty, Family, Diversity
In her first annual report, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) senior advisor to the dean on diversity issues has highlighted recent...
Curriculum, Classroom, Competence
While acknowledging that the curriculum is the faculty’s “sacred domain,” President Derek Bok nonetheless said at the October...
An Allston Metamorphosis?
Harvard's first science complex in Allston will be big by any measure. One thousand people will work in a facility designed as four buildings...
Adios, Early Admissions
Harvard College has ended its early admissions deadline. Beginning in the fall of 2007, students applying for admission to the class of 2012...
Controversial Visitor
Even before he arrived in the United States for a 12-day speaking tour, Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran, stirred controversy...
Bigger Biology
When a first draft of the human genome was sequenced in 2001, biology suddenly became much bigger. The genomethree billion DNA letters long...
Brevia
Nobel NotablesTwo alumni have won Nobel Prizes in science. Roger D. Kornberg ’67, JF ’76, Winzer professor in medicine at Stanford University...
Sciences and Gender
Women are underrepresented in academic science and engineering, according to a report issued in September by the National Academies, not because...