Laboratories Needed for Project Success Students

Medical School laboratories willing to work with minority high school and college students from Boston and Cambridge are needed for the summer of 1997. Students will work from July through August 1997, and participate in Project Success: Opening the Door to Biomedical Careers, sponsored by the Minority Faculty Development Program. All students are carefully screened for interest and ability in science and for their wish to pursue careers in science or medicine. Labs are asked to provide their student with a supportive environment and a laboratory experiment. Assistance in making this a smooth process will come from the Project Success staff, based at the Medical School.

For more information, contact Brenda Hoffman in Faculty Development and Diversity at 432-1133, or e-mail bhoffman@warren.med.harvard.edu as soon as possible.

Women in science publication available from Center for Astrophysics

Space for Women: Perspectives on Careers in Science, a popular, 20-page, color booklet offering advice and encouragement to high school girls interested in astronomy, astrophysics, and related fields, is now available in its third printing from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

Space for Women contains profiles of women who work at the CfA, ranging from scientists to administrators, describing their backgrounds and training, and highlighting their accomplishments as well as their everyday duties. Interspersed among the profiles is practical information about how to prepare for a science-related career, choosing a college, and finding a mentor.

Approximately 20,000 copies of the booklet have been distributed free to students, teachers, and career advisers nationwide since it was first published in 1995.

To obtain a free copy of Space for Women, send a postcard with your name and address to Space for Women, Publications Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MS-28, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

University Art Museums receive two grants from NEH

Two special exhibitions have received support from two National Endowment for the Humanities grants.

An implementation grant of $100,000 was awarded for "KOTAH: Its Gods, Kings, and Tigers," and a planning grant of $35,700 was awarded for "Art in the Service of Social Action: Ben Shahn's New York Photographs, 1932-1936."

"KOTAH" is scheduled to open in fall 1997, and is the first exhibition in the U.S. devoted to artistic production from a single Rajput court. The exhibition will include paintings and objects from the Royal Collections of the former state of Kotah, one of the most prolific artistic centers in north India from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

"Art in the Service of Social Action" is scheduled to open in 1998 to celebrate the centenary of Ben Shahn's birth and will examine Shahn's experimentation with the emerging field of social documentary practice.