In brief

Center for Ethics accepts fellowship applications

The Center for Ethics and the Professions is accepting applications for 2003-04 residential faculty fellowships in ethics. Fellows will participate in the center’s weekly seminar, conduct their own research in ethics, and enjoy access to a wide range of activities and opportunities in all of Harvard’s professional schools. Teachers and scholars who hold a doctorate or professional degree are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to applicants at an early stage of their careers, normally no more than 10 years from the terminal degree in their field.

The application deadline is Dec. 3. For more information, contact the center at (617) 495-1336, or visit the Web site at http://www.ethics.harvard.edu.

Harvard tech fair

University Information Systems (UIS) Technology Services is sponsoring a technology fair on Friday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Charles Hotel, third-floor ballroom. The fair will feature some of the latest technology products from Apple, Compaq, Gateway, iOmega, IBM, Microsoft, and Xerox, among other vendors. Enter the manufacturer-sponsored raffle for a chance to win an iMac. For updated information on the fair, visit http://www.computers.harvard.edu.

Haraway at Harvard for two lectures

Prominent cultural theorist Donna J. Haraway will deliver the Robert and Maurine Rothschild Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, April 23, at 4 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall. “From Cyborgs to Companion Species: Kinship in Technoscience” will examine how human/information machine relationships are alike and not alike their human/canine counterparts. The next day (Wednesday, April 24), Haraway, a professor in the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will give the Radcliffe Institute Dean’s Lecture at 4 p.m. in Agassiz House Theatre, 10 Garden St. In her talk “Cloning Mutts, Saving Tigers: Ethical Emergents in Technocultural Dog Worlds,” Haraway will discuss how a dog cloning project and a project to save threatened tiger biodiversity inhabit common American discourses. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

– Compiled by Andrew Brooks