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  • Harvard Library joins Borrow Direct

    The Harvard Library has joined the Borrow Direct Partnership, which will enable faculty, staff, and students to search a combined catalog of more than 50 million volumes at nine institutions and request circulating items.

  • HKS establishes Kenneth I. Juster Fellowship Fund

    The Harvard Kennedy School of Government is establishing the Kenneth I. Juster Fellowship Fund to support the research of outstanding Master in Public Policy students specializing in international and global affairs.

  • Do you speak Cheese?

    Students use four days of winter break to look inside the comforting universe of cheese, soup, bread, chocolate, coffee, and desserts.

  • Summer in the city — or beyond

    For many Harvard undergraduates, the learning continues after the school year ends. While there’s much to be gained from traditional work and internship experiences, many College students use the summer months to expand their horizons and explore areas not necessarily related to their concentration or career plans.

  • Join Harvard on the Move

    Harvard plans a running and walking program designed to build community and fitness among students, faculty, staff, alumni, and neighbors.

  • Library access from afar

    Harvard launched the library module of its mobile app, offering access to the world’s largest university research library from virtually anywhere.

  • Astronomers honored for excellence, research

    Harvard astronomers Robert P. Kirshner and Gaspar Bakos were honored this month (Jan.) by the American Astronomical Society.

  • Max R. Hall, writer and editor, 100

    Max R. Hall, a former journalist, writer, teacher of writing, and scholarly book editor, died in Cambridge on Jan. 12 at 100 years of age. Until his retirement, Hall was editor at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, social sciences editor at Harvard University Press, and editorial adviser at Harvard Business School.

  • Shorenstein Center announces spring fellows

    The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, has announced five spring fellows.

  • Beyond the school day

    For more than two decades, Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association after-school programs have provided a safe and fun place for students to go in the crucial afternoon hours.

  • The space in between

    Scores of Harvard undergraduates will participate in nearly 100 activities — from stand-up comedy to public service — during Harvard’s inaugural Optional Winter Activities Week (OWAW), Jan. 16-23. College officials say that OWAW is a response to the new academic calendar and to student interest in programming during the downtime between fall and spring semesters.

  • Moore than alright

    Hasty Pudding names actress Julianne Moore as 2011 Woman of the Year.

  • IOP welcomes spring fellows

    Harvard’s Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government announced on Jan. 13 the selection of an experienced group of individuals for resident fellowships this spring.

  • BIDMC’s Pandolfi to receive cancer research award

    Cancer geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the recipient of the 2011 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research.

  • Deadline looms for two HMS fellowships

    Two fellowships in Harvard Medical School’s media fellowship program are open for applications from reporters.

  • Expert etiquette

    Robin Abrahams, a research associate at Harvard Business School and Boston Globe columnist, answered Harvard employees’ questions on workplace etiquette in a HARVie chat in January.

  • Elections open for Overseers and HAA directors

    This spring, Harvard University alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association board.

  • Record applications to Harvard College

    Nearly 35,000 students applied for admission to Harvard College’s Class of 2015 for entry in August, an increase of nearly 15 percent over last year, and of more than 50 percent from four years ago. Financial aid program proves a major attraction.

  • Miss Conduct to conduct online chat

    Harvard will host an online chat with Robin Abrahams, the Boston Globe’s Miss Conduct, who also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School, on Jan. 18 at noon. The chat is part of a HARVie series that offers Harvard community members the opportunity to learn from experts across campus.

  • More diner than dining hall

    The Quincy House Grille — part of 57,000 square feet of social space renovated or constructed by the College over the past five years — is a popular spot for Quincy residents and their undergraduate classmates from the surrounding river Houses.

  • Beyond the lab and library

    Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is sponsoring a winter break grab bag of seminars, workshops, and recreational activities designed to help its students recharge and build skills.

  • Kafadar nabs Turkish honors

    Turkish President Abdullah Gül presented in December the 2010 Presidential Grand Awards in Culture and Arts to Harvard Professor Cemal Kafadar for history.

  • HGLC seeks applications for public service fellowship

    The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus is seeking current full-time Harvard student applicants for its 2011 Public Service Fellowship.

  • NARSAD awards $720,000 to Harvard researchers

    Twelve from Harvard are among 214 researchers named NARSAD Young Investigators.

  • Institute of Politics director named

    Trey Grayson, who is completing his second term as secretary of state in Kentucky, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University. Grayson will assume his post on Jan. 31.

  • Moving past any obstacles

    Tomer Rosner is an accomplished Israeli civil servant and a midcareer student on a fellowship at Harvard. He’s also the only blind student at Harvard Kennedy School, but that’s hardly slowed him down.

  • AAAS announces 15 Harvard fellows

    The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded 15 Harvard faculty members the distinction of being named an AAAS Fellow on Jan. 11.

  • Nominations open for Harvard Corporation members

    As announced in December, the Harvard Corporation will expand from seven to 13 members, as part of a broader set of changes involving the Corporation’s composition and work.

  • Campus club on listening seeks members

    The Listening Club, a burgeoning Harvard organization, is now seeking members.

  • Fellowship lands Harvard pair in Israel over break

    Harvard students Beth Brucker ’13 and Daniel Brandt ’12, along with more than 100 other student leaders from more than 60 universities across the United States and Canada, traveled over the holiday break to Israel to participate in the Hasbara Fellowships Israel Activism Training Program.