John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Back to the Drawing Board

Big building projects head back to the drawing board

University People

Prize professors...

Dean Murphy Moves On

Dean moves on

Digital-age Policy

Who owns Harvard courses? Professors? The University?...

Medical Ethics Revisited

Harvard Medical School has decided for now not to liberalize its rules...

'60s Generation Confronts '90s Protest

Student protests then and now

Beyond Wages in the Workplace

Paying and training low-wage employees decently

Brevia

Romance in the Houses... An Allston Addition...

Inc.@theCollege

When Alex M. Rampell '03 started investigating college options, the young inventor's computer program--which sells for $15 and combats...

by Geoffrey A. Fowler

Alyssa Goodman

When she was an eight-year-old living on Long Island, Alyssa Goodman, Ph.D. '89, wrote to two oceanic research centers, Scripps and Woods Hole. "I wanted to be Jacques Cousteau," ...