John Harvard's Journal

A football player in a white jersey evades a defender in a green uniform on the field.

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

The Rythmeter, circa 1944, came with a more complicated set of instructions than the earlier “scientific prediction dial” (see next image), reflecting increasingly precise knowledge of human reproduction—knowledge that Rock played no small part in advancing.

A Pioneer in Family Planning

A new exhibition honors John C. Rock, the Harvard Medical School professor whose research and advocacy were instrumental in the development of modern fertility treatments and contraception.

"A New Economic Reality"

The University’s financial gap measures in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Photograph by Stu Rosner

In the Hole

Harvard assesses the feasibility of completing capital projects now under way, and the timing of other parts of its institutional master plan.

Student artists at work in the Carpenter Center

A Vision for the Arts

A University-wide task force recommends new degree programs, courses, and spaces for art production.

The Fiscal Crunch

Harvard and its schools are preparing for broad and potentially deep cost reductions.

John Briscoe

Harvard Portrait - John Briscoe

John Briscoe will reestablish an engineering program at Harvard focused on water.

This map shows soil types for all of Africa. A researcher might use it with other map layers to study agricultural productivity among countries with similar soils, comparing, for example, the agrarian practices of Francophone and Anglophone countries.

Mapping Africa

Africa Map, a project of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, brings GIS capabilities to research on the entire continent.

Yesterday's News

Happenings at Harvard in March and April of years past

Julio Frenk, as Mexico’s minister of health, administers oral polio vaccine to a baby in a rural community during National Health Week in 2005.

A Global Health View

A profile of Julio Frenk, new dean of the Harvard School of Public Health

Articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were projected onto Harvard buildings in December. The “60.30.1” light installation--created by artist Julie Mallozzi, then acting co-director of Harvard’s Film Study Center, with animation created by Norah Solorzano, a teaching assistant in the department of visual and environmental studies--was commissioned by the Film Study Center, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and the University Committee on Human Rights Studies.

Human Rights: Inalienable, Unfulfilled

Harvard marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.