Measuring the worth of higher education
A letter from the editor
Letters on scarcity, energy options, David Ferry, home schooling, and more
Scarcity, energy options, David Ferry, home schooling, and more
President Faust on Harvard outreach to low-income applicants
A letter from President Faust
July-August 2015
With SPOCs, HarvardX tries making MOOCs smaller
Online education looks beyond the MOOC.
T.S. Eliot as a Harvard student
A rediscovery of the emerging poet
The economics of a Boston Olympics analyzed
An economic analyst of sports dissects the assumptions behind Boston's bid for the 2024 Olympics.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on solving America’s infrastructure problems
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on solving America’s infrastructure problems
Brief life of oceanographer Mary Sears, by Peter Denton
Brief life of an oceanographer and patriot: 1905-1997
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Football research at Harvard seeks new therapies for players
The Harvard Football Players Health Study aims to treat athletes’ medical problems, from head injuries to torn ACLs.
HBS experts on the disruptive power of the Internet of Things
What smart gadgets mean for big business
Reinhart and Rogoff review the tools governments use to cope with debt.
Eliminating the Great Recession’s overhang
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard 364th Commencement
A mannerly, serious-minded 364th Commencement, from Drew Faust and Deval L. Patrick to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Harvard honoraries to Renee Fleming, Deval Patrick, Denis Mukwege and more
Harvard honoraries to Renee Fleming, Deval Patrick, Denis Mukwege, and more
Harvard Commencement addresses Drew Faust, Deval Patrick
President Drew Faust, Governor Deval L. Patrick, and others weigh in during ROTC and Commencement exercises.
Harvard Commencement 2015 shorts: silent protests, senior reunioners, and more
Self-effacing senior fellow, senior reunioners, silent protests, and more
Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana's agenda
Rakesh Khurana, dean of the College, asks hard questions about the mission of a Harvard education.
Portrait of public defender Andrew Manuel Crespo
Andrew Crespo ’05 connects the law to real life.
Global surgery gets a game plan, with Harvard players
Lack of access to surgery globally will cost $12.3 trillion during the next 15 years.
Harvard engineering dean, CFO, top teachers, and more
A new dean for engineering and applied sciences, a departing public-health leader, the new CFO, top teachers, and more
Headlines from Harvard history, July-August 1930-1970
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Harvard engineering endowed, undergraduate education criticized
Endowing engineering and applied sciences, critiquing Gen Ed, addressing sexual assault, and evolving online
Harvard Kennedy School campus, Toni Morrison, venture capital origins
Reconstructing the Kennedy School campus, Toni Morrison lectures, inventing venture capital, administrators’ pay, and more
Harvard online courses and summer learning resources
Sharpening your mind during the summer months with a HarvardX course or a faculty profile.
A Harvard undergraduate discovers science
A Gen Ed course teaches a booklover about science, and her parents.
Harvard soccer star Margaret “Midge” Purce profiled
On scoring in a low-scoring game
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Harvard ceramicist Christopher Adams and his thousands of clay critters
Christopher Adams brings ceramics to life (or vice versa).
Harvard’s Robin Kelsey on photography
Robin Kelsey probes the place of photography within art.
Harvard novelist Lauren Willig plans the next plot twist in her career
From lawyering to a literary life.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Animator Danielle Feinberg illuminates how Pixar tells stories
At Pixar, putting the finishing touches on animated worlds
“Evolving Ourselves,” by Enriquez and Gullans, reviewed by Katherine Xue
Tall tales from biology’s Wild West
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Our American History—in Images
Original works by “Golden Age” illustrators on view in Newport, Rhode Island
Meju’s offers Korean fusion in Somerville’s Davis Square
The sister restaurant to Bibim in Allston opened earlier this year
Picnic spots in the Boston area
Playing and picnicking in Greater Boston
A visit to Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury, Massachusetts
A visit to Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury, Massachusetts
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
“Soar and Swing”
Singer Candice Hoyes reinterprets Duke Ellington songs in her new album On a Turquoise Cloud.
Grandparenting Guide
Author Olivia Gentile goes digital in her new project.
Harvard Medalists
Five alumni are honored for their contributions to the University.
Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four distinguished alumni.
Election Results
Newly elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association
Cambridge Scholars
Four Harvard seniors have won scholarships to study at Cambridge University
The Senior Alumni
Harvard College’s oldest alumni at Commencement
The Classes
Alumni may sign in to view class notes or obituaries.
A Harvard Club mystery solved, a student artist’s epiphany
A Harvard Club discovery, a College artist’s epiphany
