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

Brevia

Quitting Kirkland House Continuing a generational change among leaders of the undergraduate Houses, Kirkland master Donald H. Pfister and...

The Finish Line

Harvard's university campaign, the most ambitious such effort ever in higher education, concluded December 31, five and a half years from its...

Memorial minute for Laurence Wylie, scholar of French civilization

As is its custom, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of December 14, 1999, began with memorial minutes commemorating deceased colleagues...

Expanding the Professoriate

Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as "More!" It is unlikely...

Why Not.com

What surprises me most about senior year is how much it resembles freshman year--especially in the chronic questions that haunt conversations...

by Geoffrey A. Fowler

Orchid Peeping

An exhibition probing pollination strategies opened on Valentine's Day at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and will run through May 14...

Killer Killar

Last year, the second most impressive thing about Joey Killar's season was how much of the time he spent not wrestling. Competing at 165...

Mental Health Services Examined

In an effort to provide Harvard students with better mental-health care--a more accessible and tightly coordinated network of services--a...

Athletes of Winter

Women’s Hockey At midseason, the defending national champion Crimson stickwomen (13-2-2, 11-2-2 ECAC) retained their number-one ranking...

A Magnificent Acquisition

Piet Mondrian's Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow, and Red is now part of the University's art collections, thanks to a gift from the family...