John Harvard's Journal

Wolfram Schlenker wearing a suit sitting outdoors, smiling, with trees and a building in the background.

Harvard Economist Wolfram Schlenker Is Tackling Climate Change

How extreme heat affects our land—and our food supply 

by Nell Porter-Brown

2023 Candidates for Overseers and HAA Elected Directors

The nominated slates for this spring’s balloting

Portrait of Harvard Alumni Association executive director Sarah Karmon

Sarah Karmon in “listening mode”

Harvard Alumni Association’s new executive director

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard University’s 372nd Commencement Exercises

Commencement and Alumni Day logistics

Karin Oberg

Karin Öberg

This astrochemist studies the chemical antecedents of life in the universe.

by Jonathan Shaw

A Fitter FAS

The dean’s annual report, plus updates on the faculty and its finances

by John S. Rosenberg

Photo of Sara N. Bleich, responsible for implementing recommendations from Harvard slavery report

News in Brief

Rankled about rankings, acting on the slavery report, and more

Harvard’s Truman Jones (90) and Khalil Dawsey corral Yale running back Joshua Pitsenberger.

Ups and Downs

Kings of the road, the football team struggled at home—and in The Game.

by Dick Friedman

Student protestors outs the Supreme Court, demonstrating in favor of affirmative action in admissions

Admissions on Trial

The Supreme Court hears the Harvard and UNC admissions cases.

Illustration of Cambridge in deep snow, not cleaned up

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Thomas J. Hollister, vice president for finance

Black Ink—and Red

A huge budget surplus, but a down year for the endowment

by John S. Rosenberg