Eight doctoral candidates of exceptional promise will join the Society of Fellows as Junior Fellows on July 1.

The Society gives scholars at early stages of their careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of the University, free from formal requirements. They must demonstrate exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness.

Junior Fellows are selected by the Senior Fellows, who with the President of the University and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, exofficio, administer the Society. Those elected receive three-year fellowships.

The Society was organized in 1933 under the terms of a gift from A. Lawrence Lowell, then President Emeritus of Harvard. The gift was made in memory of Lowell's wife and is known as the Anna Parker Lowell Fund.

The new Junior Fellows are:

* Vijay Balasubramanian (Physics: High-Energy Theory) B.S., B.S., M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University.

* Rosemarie Bernard (Social Anthropology) B.A., McGill University, M.A. Harvard University, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University.

* Dennis Gaitsgory (Pure Mathematics) B.Sc. Tel-Aviv University, Ph.D. candidate, Tel-Aviv University.

* Erika Naginski (Art History) B.A. New York University, M.A., Ph.D.

candidate, University of California, Berkeley.

* Kim I. Gutschow (Social Anthropology) B.A., M.A. Harvard University, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University.

* Dmitri A. Petrov (Evolutionary Genetics) M.S. Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University.

* Tamar B. Schapiro (Philosophy) B.A. Yale University, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University.

* Man-Wah Tan (Molecular Biology) B.Sc. Universiti Sains Malaysia, M. Phil. University of Cambridge, A.M. Harvard University, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University.