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

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.

Photograph courtesy of Harvard Kennedy School

Decisionmaking, Measured

A new interdisciplinary decision-science lab will host experiments from psychology, economics, and beyond.

Brevia

News of the University and the Harvard community

Brevia

News of the University and the Harvard community

Making Mingling Manageable

Undergraduate columnist Christian Flow ponders the strange social science of mingling.

by Christian Flow

Sophomore Meryl Federman and senior Adam N. Hallowell keep themselves busy during a break in the action at Brown University’s early fall tournament.

Buzzing In

Quiz Bowl’s quirky intellectualism and hard-driving competitiveness energize a strong Harvard team.

by Christian Flow

HOT PURSUIT: Defenders Schultz (52), Curtis (91), and Barnes (25) closing in on Yale back Mike McLeod.

Big D

Defensive prowess helps the football team to a share of the Ivy crown.

by Bethell, John T

Harvard soccer and basketball updates

Soccer and basketball updates