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

E.O. Wilson is coauthor of two new ant books

In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Recent appointments and honors for Harvard affiliates

Arrivals, appointments, awards

Psychologist Marc Hauser returns to Harvard, but not to teaching

The psychology professor returns to Harvard, but not to teaching.

Headlines from Harvard history

Headlines from Harvard's history

Faculty consulting for Qaddafi government prompts academic-principles debate

Faculty consulting for the Qaddafi government prompts a debate on academic principles.

Three new members enlarge the Harvard Corporation

New members enlarge the Harvard Corporation

Peter Der Manuelian is Harvard's resident Egyptologist

Meet Harvard's resident Egyptologist.

Alan M. Garber named new Harvard provost

An experienced Stanford administrator, an expert on health policy and economics, returns to take a big job at his alma mater.

Harvard Commencement 2011: Vignettes from the dais

Human touches within Commencement's pomp

Harvard Commencement Confetti 2011

An omnium-gatherum of notes and statistics, vital and otherwise