Notes

President to hold office hours for students

President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 4 p.m. in his Massachusetts Hall office. Office hours are held on a first-come, first-served basis.

Financial planning session offered

A Do-It-Yourself Financial Planning session with certified financial planner Sharon Rich will be offered by the University's Office of Work and Family at noon on Monday, Oct. 27, at 2 Brattle Square (second floor). Please preregister for the program.

Other sessions in the Brown-Bag Luncheon Series are: Early Financial Planning for College (Oct. 28), Valued Aging: The Challenges of Growing Older (Oct. 30), Me, Myself, and I: At Home and Work (Nov. 13), Handling Illness and Loss During the Holidays (Nov. 18), Creating an Integrated Life (Nov. 21), and When Partners are from Different Traditions (Dec. 5).

The Office of Work and Family also offers programs on adoption, elder care, infant and child CPR, family genograms, and activities for singles.

To register for any of the programs, call 495-4100.

Environmental conference to be held at Divinity School

A conference on "Environmental Worldviews and the Academy," organized by and for Boston-area students, will be held Saturday, Oct. 25, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Andover Hall at the Divinity School.

The conference will address the impact of human beliefs, values, and behaviors on the environment and the ways various academic disciplines recognize and respond to our current crisis.

The keynote speaker, David Orr, is a nationally known professor of environmental studies and politics at Oberlin College. Conference sessions will include presentations on topics ranging from consumerism to Confucianism to ecological landscape design.

The event is sponsored by the Divinity School Environment Chaplains, the Boston Theological Institute, the Faith and Science Exchange, the Ecology and Religion Cooperative, the Graduate School of Design, and the Graduate School of Education. For information, call the Divinity School Environment Chaplain at 496-8128.

Pathology Event To Be Held at Medical School

"Pathology at Harvard Medical School: The First 150 Years" is the theme of a conference to be held from 1 to 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 24, at Walter Amphitheater, Tosteson Medical Education Center, 260 Longwood Ave., Boston.

Co-chairs of the conference are Peter Howley of the Department of Pathology, Medical School; and Baruj Bencerraf of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who is also the George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology Emeritus.

The event is free and does not require registration.