John Harvard's Journal

Three joyful graduates in caps and gowns celebrate together outdoors.

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Alvin Roth

Alvin Roth loves how open economics is to people and ideas from different fields...

Yesterday's News

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine...

University People

Edward C. Forst ’82 has been named Harvard’s first executive vice president, effective September 1.

Harvard is already trying many green initiatives; it will need to do much more to meet its new greenhouse-gas emissions goal. Above: solar panels on the roof of the Business School’s Shad Hall.

Environmental Action

Harvard is already trying many green initiatives; it will need to do much more to meet its new greenhouse-gas emissions goal...

Ana Vollmar ’08, of the veggie-loving Dudley House Co-op and Hamden, Connecticut.

J.K. Rowling, Ben Bernanke and President Faust in 2008

At a time of war and recession, Commencement takes stock of nation, University, and graduates' lives...

David Rockefeller

A Giant's Gift

David Rockefeller gives $100 million for international and arts education...

In this rendering of Renzo Piano’s plan for renovating the Fogg Art Museum, the study centers are visible on the fifth and sixth floors. Also shown are the museum’s two entrances: the existing one from Quincy Street on the left, and a new entryway from Prescott Street on the right.

Open Access to Art

Student study centers in the renovated Fogg Museum...

Joanna Aizenberg

Joanna Aizenberg

A bioengineer learns from sponges...

Jeremy R. Knowles

A Dominant Dean

Reflecting on the service of Jeremy R. Knowles, two-time dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

A Communal Campus?

President Drew Faust on April 24 appointed a University steering committee to explore improvements to Harvard’s Cambridge campus, with the aim...