John Harvard's Journal
Can Harvard’s Football Team Repeat Its Ivy League Success?
Despite personnel losses, Crimson captain Xaviah Bascon is upbeat about the 2026 season.
Yesterday's News
1912 Mrs. George D. Widener reveals plans to build a library at Harvard in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener ’07, who perished with...
Growth Spurt
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the past nine years than in the previous four decades. In a letter distributed to...
Keeping the Vibes
How do you play a broken record? “Take a picture of it,” says audio engineer David Ackerman, who heads the Audio Preservation...
Off the Fast Track
Slow down, please, said community members comprising the Harvard-Allston Task Force. May we take things one at a time? Of course, said Harvard...
The Moral Status of the Embryo
Is a blastocyst—an early-stage human embryo—a person? As part of the University’s efforts to encourage public dialogue about...
University People
Security Secretary Juliette N. Kayyem Kennedy School of Government lecturer in public policy Juliette N. Kayyem...
Harvard’s 50-Year Plan
Ten million square feet of new buildings, as many as 12,000 new jobs, and many billions of dollars: the numbers alone suggest the scope of...
The War at Home
Almost every week last year I received an e-mail with the subject line “Iraq Update.” With each message, the number following that...
by Casey N. Cep
"Crossing Boundaries"
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust, founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will become Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on...
Scholars Galore
What a difference a year makes! In 2005, Harvard affiliates earned one Marshall Scholarship and two Rhodes Scholarships. In 2006, those numbers...