John Harvard's Journal

Harvard Economist Wolfram Schlenker Is Tackling Climate Change

How extreme heat affects our land—and our food supply 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Don Share

Photograph by Rose Lincoln Across from Don Share's desk hangs a photograph of Robert Lowell '37, Litt.D. '66, the poet Share...

The 350th Leadership

It was a sollemnia semisaecularia septima occasion,* but little was made of that, and all the traditional revelries and ceremonial benedictions...

2001 Harvard honorary degrees

  Three women and eight men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 350th Commencement. In order of presentation, the honorands were:...

Commencement Confetti

A tipping of caps to John Harvard. Rev. Peter J. Gomes, leading, told seniors at their baccalaureate service, "All of the muses are...

Bono and other speakers from Commencement 2001

Bono and other speakers from Commencement 2001

Science and Politics and Stem Cells

Scientists became alarmed this spring when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled a meeting to review applications for federally...

Wage Wrangling

The sit-in capped a two-year-old campaign organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and aimed at securing a standard minimum...

Addressing Allston

The wish list for Harvard's recently acquired 100 acres in Allston is long and growing: graduate-student housing, a museum, conceivably a whole...

Trove of Tomes

On a Saturday in April, two vans from New York drove up to Langdell Library at the Law School and off-loaded about a thousand early English law...

Arts Transition

At a special dinner in May, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy Knowles ended his lighthearted remarks by presenting a pair of gifts...