Applications for Winter Break grants
Harvard University President Drew Faust today announced the opening of the 2013 Winter Break grant cycle for the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty. Proposals may be submitted online until Sept. 21 at the program website, www.januaryinnovationfund.harvard.edu. Launched in 2010, the fund provides seed money to Harvard faculty to develop and implement creative student learning experiences for Winter Break. The grants are University-wide, designed to promote the kind of cross-School teaching and faculty-student interaction encouraged by Faust. “Last year, the January Innovation Fund supported programs that brought together students, teachers, and researchers from across the University,” said Faust. “Some courses included participants from as many as six different Schools at Harvard. This diversity of perspectives allowed for a wide range of programming — from computer modeling for chemists, to design for engineers, to multimedia training for educators. We hope to build on this success in 2013.” Although proposals for off-campus programs may...