John Harvard's Journal

Harvard in the News

University layoffs, professors in court, and a new Law School dean

How Do Single-Celled Organisms Learn and Remember?

A Harvard neuroscientist’s quest to model memory

by Lydialyle Gibson

Highlights from Harvard’s Past

The Medical School goes coed, University poet wins Nobel Prize. 

Harvard’s Summer in Court

What Columbia’s settlement means for the University

by Jonathan Shaw , Joanna M Weiss

The School of Public Health, Facing a Financial Reckoning, Seizes the Chance to Reinvent Itself

Dean Andrea Baccarelli plans for a smaller, more impactful Chan School of 2030.

by Jonathan Shaw

Brief Harvard Headlines Summer 2025

New leaders, fresh funding cuts, and evolving policies

Snapshots of Harvard History | Summer 2025

Including profundity and pretzels

What do antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias look like on Harvard's campus?

The two reports find similar problems but, at times, work against each other.

by Max J. Krupnick

How Harvard Students Handle Political Disagreements

The Undergraduate asks if intellectualism is really on life support.

by Serena Jampel

Harvard Economist Nicole Maestas on Aging and Health Policy

The Harvard health economist not afraid to get in the weeds

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Discipline and Financial Aid

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences discusses classroom conversations, boosts aid, addresses discipline—and faces austerity

by John S. Rosenberg