John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Janet Browne

Photograph by Harrison Janet Browne When Darwin biographer Janet Browne emigrated from University College London a year ago to become Aramont...

Soccer Summary

Men’s Soccer The Crimson (7-1-1), ranked sixth nationally in one September poll, started strongly and tied the defending national...

Green Gauge

The ever-useful Harvard University Fact Book (published annually by the Office of Budgets, Financial Planning, and Institutional Research, and...

Twenty-eighth, and First

Honored historian, seasoned scholar steeped in universities’ distinctive role, adept academic administrator—Drew Gilpin Faust...

Engineering Renewed

Celebrating its own nifty bit of reengineering, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), elevated from the status of a division of...

University People

Enduring Deans, Acting Executives Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler Alan A. Altshuler, Harvard Graduate School of Design...

Yesterday's News

1912 Larz Anderson ’88 proposes to build a new bridge across the Charles River to replace the inadequate wooden structure connecting...

Scholarly Sale

The $50-million challenge fund established by the University Development Office in February 2006 to stimulate the endowment of professorships...

Arsenic and Old Lead

The Arnold Arboretum anticipated closing a deal last December to sell the Case Estates, its 62.5-acre property (complete with barn and two other...

Brevia

College Chief Concludes Service Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross, Leverett professor of mathematics, left his decanal post on August 31...