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.

by Dick Friedman

Seeing Biological Systems Whole

Marc Kirschner, one of the world's leading cell biologists, has a new office. He apologizes for a mess that hardly exists -- a microscope and...

by Nathan Heller

Winter Sports in Brief

Women's Ice Hockey The icewomen (11-6-2) revenged an early 3-2 road loss to Yale with an 11-2 blowout at home in January. Four of the team's six...

Faculty Composition

Harvard's faculty consists of both tenured professors and "ladder faculty" (associate and assistant professors), and other teaching...

Daytripper

It's hard to escape San Francisco, where I grew up, without a car. A couple of commuter trains snake into the suburbs, but once you break past...

by Nathan Heller

Leaner Libraries

The pilot project with Google announced by the Harvard University Library in December is a small step toward a future of possibilities in which...

Fun's Expediter

Zac Corker Harvard News Office Styled "Harvard's Fun Czar" by Reuters and CNN, Zac Corker '04 sits in his University Hall...

Back with a Marshall, Still Strong in the Rhodes

Thomas Wolf Jon Chase / Harvard News Office Melissa Dell Sarah Hill Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Justin Ide / Harvard News...

Gender Gap

On January 14, President Lawrence H. Summers appeared as a luncheon speaker at "Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce," a...

Women and Tenure

The discussion of tenured appointments of women within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) cooled somewhat during an extended airing of the...

Parallel Universities

Even as Harvard's planning consultants conclude the private phase of their development grid for Allston, it is possible to get a sense of their...