In Brief

East Asian Legal Studies accepting submissions

The East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) program of the Harvard Law School (HLS) will award the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize to the author of the best paper on East Asian law, legal history, or U.S.-East Asian relations. Submissions must be from papers that were written in conjunction with a course or independent study at HLS.

The prize includes a cash award and will be announced at Commencement. The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 11, to EALS, Pound Hall 426, on the Law School campus.

Black History Month service to be held at University

In honor of Black History Month, a service will be held on Sunday, Feb. 18, at 3:30 p.m., in the Memorial Church. The Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, co-pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain, will give the sermon. The Gospel Choir of Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church in Roxbury, and the choir and soloists of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain will provide music. The service is sponsored by the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators and the Memorial Church.

Deadline for OFA grants

The Office for the Arts Fall 2001 Project Grants deadline is Wednesday, April 25. Grants are available to Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff for work of high artistic merit, experimentation, and educational benefit. Forms are available at the Office for the Arts, 74 Mt. Auburn St., or on the Web at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ofa/grants.

President holds office hours

President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. March 6. Provost Harvey V. Fineberg will hold his student office hours from 4 to 5 p.m. on Feb. 20. Office hours are held on a first-come, first-served basis.

– Compiled by Andrew Brooks