John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
A Sensitive Census
The revelation last autumn that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) had made offers of tenured professorships to only four women during...
The Long Goodbye
On a rainy summer’s night in New York City, a month after graduation, a group of my college friends meet for dinner...
Allston Options and Actions
With a near-term goal of establishing an expanded campus footprint across the Charles River during the next decade, Harvard released on June 2 a...
2005-2006 Ledecky Fellows
Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-2006 academic year will be junior John A. La Rue and senior...
Catherine Dulac
“The sense of smell was very poorly understood,” says professor of molecular and cellular biology Catherine Dulac, until a seminal...
A Robust Decade at the Business School
Kim B. Clark’s move from Allston to Idahohe became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call...
A New Dean at HBS
Jay O. Light Harvard Business School Jay O. Light, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. professor of business administration, became acting dean of...
University Housing on the Rise
More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students but some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in...
Yesterday's News
1915 One hundred-plus Harvard men and their families sail from New York City via the Panama Canal to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting...
A Mouse, and Other Surprises
“In this perilous, suffering world and in this deeply troubled nation,” as John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, characterized...