John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Think Tank for Aid Workers
After Michael J. VanRooyen finished his residency in emergency medicine in 1991, he went to Somalia. Eager to see how his medical training would...
Polo Renaissance
Yes, there was one gleaming black Bentley (but only one) parked on the greensward at Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. True...
Counting the War Dead
How lethal are modern methods of warfare? Political scientists affiliated with the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO)—the...
New Harvard Graduate School of Design dean Mohsen Mostafavi
Expect bold ideas from Mohsen Mostafavi when he begins his term as dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD). On a late September visit to...
Getting and Spending
The University’s annual financial accounting—usually a forbidding and retrospective document—this year sports a new look and...
Yesterday's News
1912 The Associated Harvard Clubs have established scholarships for freshmen from southern and western states to ensure greater diversity within...
Faculty Well-Being: A Status Report
For the first time, Harvard has asked its faculty members how happy they are. A survey conducted last November by the two-year-old Office of...
"First Day of School" for Engineering
With speeches and feasting, Harvard celebrated the launch of its new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) on September 20. During a...
Gender and Minority Metrics
The report from the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity published this summer also contains the third annual accounting of gender and...
Directing Development
Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 has been appointed the University’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, President Drew...