Harvard Magazine

12/04/2025

Harvard University announced a second round of funding for student-led projects aimed at strengthening community and bridging divides on campus.

Eight new projects—from discussions and film screenings to an online genetic map—were selected from across the University. Each will receive up to $5,000 and will launch throughout winter and spring 2026.

The grants come from the President’s Building Bridges Fund, created last fall following recommendations in the task force reports on antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias.

Eight new initiatives to build community on campus will get underway early next year.

12/04/2025

Academia, including Harvard University, is changing quickly. University life is being reshaped by new technologies, new pressures, and new debates.

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12/03/2025

'Tis the season—for supporting regional artists, designers, and manufacturers.

If you're searching for some creative options to surprise the people you love over the holidays, look no further than Harvard Magazine's 2025 New England gift guide (link below).

"How we spend our money is a reflection of our values,” notes Deb Dormody, an alumni and family relations officer at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). “Supporting independent artists and makers is a way of demonstrating what you believe and helps the local economy.”

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12/02/2025

Homelessness in America is a centuries-old concern, one that predates the nation itself. That deep history was the subject of much discussion at “Beyond Shelter: The Business of Ending Homelessness in America,” a two-day symposium held November 20-21 at Harvard University.

The event explored the history of homelessness from the 17th century to the present, including solutions proposed by Harvard faculty.

Professors explore the history of homelessness in the U.S., from colonial poor laws to today’s housing crisis

12/02/2025

Concluding a tremendous season, Harvard Football played its final game of the season on Saturday, falling 52–7 to Villanova in the first round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

“The reality is that’s a very good offense that we just played, and they played at a really high level,” said Andrew Aurich, Stephenson family head coach for Harvard Football.

Despite the disappointment of the final two weeks (with a loss to Yale at Harvard-Yale), the season was a success for the Crimson. A nine-game winning streak, an Ivy League co-championship (their third in a row), and a trip to the playoffs are not chopped liver. As time goes by, Harvard fans may look back at these as the halcyon days.

The Crimson’s inaugural playoff appearance is nasty, brutish, and short.

11/26/2025

Standing on the Greenland ice sheet—flat, white, and stretching for thousands of miles—it would be hard to imagine that, buried in the centuries of compressed snow, there lies a record of the Roman Empire’s mining activities.

In recent decades, research into glacial ice has shown that ancient societies, including the Romans, altered the atmosphere long before factory chimneys darkened modern skies.

Harvard class explores what glaciers can tell us about how much pollution the Roman Empire emitted

11/25/2025

On Saturday, Harvard University affiliates received an email that an “unauthorized party” had breached databases used by the office of Alumni Affairs and Development. Harvard officials do not yet know precisely what data the attackers accessed.

Days later, details of the attack remain sketchy. However, officials report that breached databases generally do not contain Social Security numbers, passwords, payment card information, or financial account numbers.

But those databases do include other personal information, such as email addresses, telephone numbers, home and business addresses, event attendance, details of donations to Harvard, and “other biographical information pertaining to University fundraising and alumni engagement activities.”

The University is investigating the cyberattack, which may have compromised the personal information of alumni, donors, students, faculty, and staff.

11/25/2025

The countdown to Thanksgiving is on, but the turkeys of Harvard University have other ideas.

📷Photographs by the staff of Harvard Magazine

11/25/2025

In the 141st playing of The Game this past Saturday, Harvard football suffered its first defeat of the season—losing 45-28 to Yale. On Sunday, however, the Crimson got good news.

Rewarded for their near-season-long excellence, the team recieved an at-large bid to the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. This is the first year that Ivy teams have been allowed to enter.

Harvard travels to Villanova this coming Saturday to face the Wildcats. It will be the Crimson’s first postseason game since the 1920 Rose Bowl (Harvard 7, Oregon 6).

A wild weekend: a debacle in The Game, then a berth in the playoffs.

11/21/2025

The Harvard Law School Library has released a digital archive of its records from all 13 Nuremberg trials: a massive trove of documents chronicling the effort after World War II to bring N**i leaders to justice.

This archive, the first complete set of Nuremberg records to be made publicly available online, is also fully searchable. Its release comes on the 80th anniversary of the first trial, an international military tribunal convened on November 20, 1945 during which 22 of the surviving top leaders from N**i Germany were prosecuted.

Thousands of documents chronicle the N**i regime and the legal effort to exact justice.