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

Photograph of Bridget Terry Long, dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education

Harvard’s new education master’s program

Harvard Graduate School of Education introduces core courses and a restructured professional curriculum.

by John S. Rosenberg

Interior photograph of Harvard COOP main floor renovation

Renovation and consolidation at Harvard COOP

Renovation and consolidation at a Harvard Square institution

Braxton Shelley sits at a keyboard

Musician and professor Braxton Shelley

A gospel scholar shapes music theory.

by Jacob Sweet

Drawing of a female mallard flying down to her nest on a Harvard rooftop with food for her seven ducklings, each bearing a letter on its chest spelling out H-A-R-V-A-R-D.

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Photograph of Ruth J. Simmons, Harvard’s virtual graduation speaker in May

Harvard’s COVID-19 spring and fall outlook

The spring semester, coronavirus KO’s in-person Commencement, and fall prospects

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard and sexual harassment: an apology for the past; new steps to end it now

A withering investigation of sexual harassment

by Lydialyle Gibson

Screen shot of Harvard University home page featuring climate-change stories

Harvard reports on “net-zero” investment process

Harvard Management Company issues its first “Climate Report,” and an update on divestment advocacy, and other institutions’ progress

by John S. Rosenberg

Project plan showing first and proposed second phases of Enterprise Research Campus development in Allston

Allston expansion, admissions litigation, center for cities

Bigger Allston ambitions, an admissions-lawsuit appeal, and a new center for cities

Aerial view of Adams House, now being renovated

Less construction ahead, quantum science and engineering, and more

Less construction in prospect, quantum science and engineering, and more

A group photo of the four Harvard undergraduates, including the author, with their project adviser and two local, older mentors

Community-engaged research lessons for students via Harvard’s Mindich Program

The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.

by Che Applewhaite