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

Official portrait of Lawrence H. Summers

Portraying Larry Summers

Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy

by John S. Rosenberg

A man in a wetsuit helps an astronaut out of an Apollo capsule floating in the ocean

Apollo 17 Turns 50

Two Harvard alumni recall a return from the last human moonwalk.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Humorous illustration of campus police seeing late-night daters’ final kiss

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Archon Fung and Meredith Weenick, chairs of faculty and staff advisory committees for Harvard presidential search

Brevia

Presidential search, boat house rebuilding, giant telescope, M.B.A. aid, and more

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at Kempner Institute debut

Science Surges

Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations

Defensive lineman Thor Griffith, a junior, celebrating two sacks and a game-high nine tackles against Merrimack

Great Expectations

Picked to win the 2022 Ivy championship, the football team got off to a solid start.

by Dick Friedman

Alex Tsotadze, men’s water polo co-captain, in action

Scoring Moves

Alex Tsotadze’s water polo reads and rips

by Jacob Sweet

Quantum SCIENCE Quarters

 New home for the quantum science and engineering doctoral program.

illustration showing multiple hands dismantling a rifle

The Parkland Generation

Coming of age in an era of gun violence

by Swathi Kella

2022-23 Ledecky Fellows

The 2022-2023 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows