The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies is offering graduate and undergraduate student fellowship support and summer research travel funding in the field of Japanese studies.

The fellowships include: the Harvard Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japanese Studies for 1999-00; Supplementary Dissertation Grants for 1999-00; Dissertation Production Grants; Reischauer Institute Summer Research Grants for Graduate Students for 1999; Reischauer Institute Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants for 1999; the Henry Rosovsky Undergraduate Summer Travel Research Grant for 1999; and Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies.

For further information and application materials, contact the Reischauer Institute, Coolidge Hall 319, or call 495-3220.

The Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Houghton Library, the rare book and manuscript library, has an assortment of Christmas and holiday cards for sale this season. The cards reproduce rare material from the collection, ranging from early manuscript illuminations to contemporary digital designs.

The generously sized cards are blank inside and are accompanied by an envelope. They are sold in packages of 10, and cost $12.50 for the new set and $6 for an assortment of 10 past designs. The cards are available in the lobby of the Houghton Library from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For more information, call 495-2444 or see the cards at http://www.dissent.com/houghton/.

A lunchtime talk on ÒKeeping in Touch/Letting Go: Enjoying Your ChildÕs College YearsÓ will be given by Elizabeth Studley Nathans, Dean of Freshmen, at noon on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 2 Brattle Square (second floor), Cambridge. The brown-bag lunch talk is sponsored by the Office of Work and Family. Nathans will talk about the ways in which sons and daughters negotiate the challenges of college life. To register, call 495-4100.