John Harvard's Journal

Cozy nook with a patterned rug and various colorful pillows against wooden walls.

At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages

The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Honoris Causa

Harvard’s 2022 honorary-degree recipients

Graduates-to-be read the student newspaper, absent a University Gazette

Commencement Confetti

Tidbits from a memorable, celebratory Harvard week

President Lawrence S. Bacow at Commencement May 26, 2022

The Speeches 2022

President Bacow on humility, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on democracy and social media, and Attorney General Merrick Garland on civic engagement and threats to U.S. democracy

Plaque memorializing slaves, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016

Harvard’s Ties to Slavery

A long-awaited, unsparing picture 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Mariana Quinn

Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn

A former geologist follows her piano-tuner father’s footsteps.

by Nancy Walecki

Views from the Top

President Bacow and Senior Fellow Lee on Harvard today

by John S. Rosenberg

Illustration of football players hanging their laundry out to dry

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Retiring executive vice president Katie Lapp

Brevia

The EVP retires, new Overseers leaders, Stanford’s sustainability school, and more

The End of Shopping Week

After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to replace shopping week with previous-term registration.

by Jonathan Shaw

The illustration shows an empty rowboat floating away and a woman wading toward it, in chest-high water.

The Need for Communal Healing

Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead