In brief

Ethics center accepting fellowship applications for 2007-08

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University is currently accepting applications from graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics, especially ethical issues in business, education, government, law, and medicine. Students should be enrolled in a doctoral program of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences or in one of Harvard’s professional Schools, and should have completed all course requirements and general examinations by September prior to the fellowship year (2007-08).

In professions such as law or medicine, where a doctoral dissertation is not required for an academic career, advanced students taking leaves of absence, recent graduates, and Harvard affiliates engaged in postgraduate training are also eligible. The application deadline is Nov. 15.

For more information, contact the graduate fellowship program at (617) 496-0587, or via e-mail at ethics@harvard.edu. Visit the center’s Web site at http://www.ethics.harvard.edu.

Yale Law School’s Reva Siegel to deliver Biddle Lecture

Harvard Law School (HLS) invites members of the University community to attend the Francis Biddle Memorial Lecture with Reva Siegel, the Nicholas de B. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. The lecture – titled “The New Politics of Abortion: Woman-Protective Antiabortion Argument, in South Dakota and Beyond” – will be given Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. in Austin Hall East, HLS. A reception will immediately follow in the Austin Hall Rotunda.

GSD to open doors to prospective students

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) will host its annual admissions open house for prospective students on Nov. 3 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The day will include program overviews and question-and-answer sessions with faculty and current students, as well as the opportunity to sit in on classes and studios and tour the facilities. For more information and to RSVP, call (617) 495-5453.