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.
"Roots" and Race
In June, a New York Times article raised a long-simmering issue: the origins and ancestry of Harvard's black students. The piece described the...
Dispatches from the Front
Interim Iraqi Government minister Nesreen Berwari's phone number, area code 914 (a New Rochelle exchange!), rings in Baghdad, a satellite trick...
University People
University Professors Laurence H. Tribe Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office George M. Whitesides Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News...
A Gift for Openness
When Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, described the library's fledgling Open Collections...
Russia Case Progresses
In late June, Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court in Boston issued a summary judgment clearing Harvard University of three...
Controlling Conflicts of Interest
Following a broad review begun in early 2003, Harvard Medical School (HMS) this May formally reaffirmed and updated its policies governing...
Letter from Phnom Penh
Editor's note: Arianne Cohen '03, a former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow, spent the last academic year in Cambodia. Now, while...
Harvard news and notes
Gender Milestone For the first time, slightly more women than men will enroll in the cohort of students entering Harvard College, making the...
Eyes Opened But Averted
I make decisions on a whim, decisions prompted by sudden changes in interest—and subject to immediate retraction once I've recovered sense...
New Ledecky Fellows
Nathan J. Heller and Amelia E. Lester named Harvard Magazine's Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows