Institution
Harvard University
HarvardMAPrivate R1MessageMe / Harvard Alert~25,000 students
- Cases
- 14
- Alerts
- 34
- Verbatim
- 82%
- Span
- 1969–2026
Official alert policy
How Harvard says it will alert: when and how MessageMe activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
14 cases · 28 of 34 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
- bomb threat: 2026-09-28Bomb threat closes Memorial Hallemergency notificationverbatim
- armed person: 2026-09-01Shelter-in-place for a person armed with a knifeemergency notificationverbatim
- missing person: 2026-06-04Missing person last seen at the Science Centeradvisoryverbatim
- assault: 2026-05-19Assault and battery reported at Lowell Housetimely warningverbatim
- shooting: 2026-05-11Advisory after a man fired over 50 rounds at vehicles near campus; two woundedemergency notification2 injuredverbatim
- winter storm: 2026-02-22College and FAS classes remote for blizzard and state of emergencyemergency notificationverbatim
2025
2024
By incident type