John Harvard's Journal

Wolfram Schlenker wearing a suit sitting outdoors, smiling, with trees and a building in the background.

Harvard Economist Wolfram Schlenker Is Tackling Climate Change

How extreme heat affects our land—and our food supply 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Four polo players ride horses and one swings a mallet

Harvard Polo Up Close

Human (and horse) athletes ride through pandemic setbacks

by Nancy Walecki

Culinary Postcards

Food has always been a contentious topic among undergraduates.

by Swathi Kella

Wideout Kym Wimberly hauls in Luke Emge’s third-down, last-seconds, no-timeouts pass to secure Harvard’s thrilling 31-27 victory in The Game.

Harvard Football’s Stolen Ivy Title

The Crimson’s final win should have clinched an Ivy championship.

by Dick Friedman

Chart of Harvard Management Company endowment allocation and returns by asset class

On Firmer Footing

Robust financial results despite the pandemic, and historic endowment returns

by John S. Rosenberg

Lauren Williams

Math Professor Lauren Williams Explores New Ground

Williams feels at home researching underexplored subjects.

by Jacob Sweet

Portrait of Claudine Gay, dean of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Faculty Faces Its Future

Better results than expected during the pandemic, and a sweeping effort to plan for academic improvements

by John S. Rosenberg

News Briefs

Legacies challenged, campus sustainability, affirmative-action litigation, and honored scientists

by John S. Rosenberg

Illustration of a collegiate hero, per Theodore Roosevelt in 1907

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Image of Giant Magellan Telescope design

Brevia

No more Harvard Teacher Fellows, universities and slavery, and more

Photograph of Houghton Library’s renovated reading room

Reopening. . .Carefully

Resuming Harvard in residence, with continuing coronavirus cautions

by John S. Rosenberg