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

The Graduate School Agenda

Quality of life and academic matters receive equal billing in a four-part program for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

Fong of Ping-Pong

The orange ball, clicking in its relentless, stuttering rhythm, is bigger now...

by Craig Lambert

Another Museum Proposed

Harvard has floated the idea that it build an important new museum of natural and cultural history on some yet-to-be-determined site in Allston at some time in the not-too-distant future...

Impresario of Fun

William J. “Bill” Cleary Jr. ’56, All-American, Olympian, head coach, and athletic director.

by Craig Lambert

The Politics of Campus Planning

Kathy Spiegelman, once an assistant city manager for Cambridge, has since 1995 been director of Harvard Planning and Real Estate...

Judith Palfrey

On a ward at Children's Hospital, the head of the division of general pediatrics is worrying...

Endowment Encore... and More?

The Harvard Corporation has authorized another large increase in the distribution of funds from the endowment to support...

Not Building by the Book

With 90 Mount Auburn Street, avant-garde Harvard Square may soon be home to one of the architectural "gems"...

Elbow Room

Arts and Sciences dean Jeremy R. Knowles starts his annual letter to faculty colleagues...

Tangible Learning in a Virtual World

Years ago Gerald Lesser, now Bigelow professor of education and developmental psychology emeritus at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), was a key player in the development of the children's television show Sesame Street.