John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Journal Opener
Photograph by Hillel Burger. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Copyright © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College This altar at the...
Life in Counterpoint
Few have ever faced the choice that Berenika Zakrzewski '04 had three years ago: Harvard or Juilliard? "It was exasperating," she...
Biomedical Momentum
The curtain has begun to lift on Harvard's growing commitment to life sciences, particularly those involving biomedical research. Three events...
No Answers for O-
The day before I arrived in Kosovo, authorities in Pristina changed the name of the capital city's thoroughfare from Vladimir Lenin Street to...
A Bioscience Portfolio
Two recent grants to faculties at the far geographic reaches of the University demonstrate the diversity and scale of Harvard's life-sciences...
Death of the Students' Dean
Archie C. Epps IIIJon Chase / Harvard News OfficeArchie C. Epps III, B.D. '61, Harvard College dean of students from 1971 to 1999, died August...
Timothy Mitchison
Timothy MitchisonPhotograph by Jim Harrison"When I came to America, I found that if you could do something or had something to say, people...
The Sisters McDavitt
Last fall, the Harvard field hockey squad was locked in a scoreless tie with Boston University. Though the teams had similar national rankings...
A Scientific Instrument
Harvard Medical School, in an historic expansion rivaling the construction of its original white marble quadrangle a century ago, dedicated its...