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Harvard Art Museums

Alcorn To Give Book Reading

In anticipation of the upcoming release of Alfred Alcorn's third novel, Murder in the Museum of Man, the Museum of Cultural & Natural History is holding a reading and book signing with the author on Tuesday, April 1, at 6 p.m. in Romer Hall, 26 Oxford St. Alcorn, who has worked for the Museum's travel program since 1987, has received critical acclaim for his earlier novels, The Pull of the Earth and Vestments. A reception will follow the reading. For more information on the program, call 496-6972.

Harvard University Libraries

Preservation Center Announces Online 'Harvard Book'

The Harvard University Library Preservation Center has opened the online version of The Harvard Book, a two-volume compendium of University lore and history published in 1875. It can be found at http://hbook.harvard.edu/hbook/

Originally published as a souvenir for graduating seniors, The Harvard Book contains a detailed history of University life, with descriptions of customs, buildings, and student organizations, as well as biographies of prominent individuals. It contains numerous illustrations, including architectural views and portraits. In its original format, the book contains 800 pages in two volumes and weighs more than 20 pounds. The online version not only provides a more manageable format for browsing, but also ensures that the fragile originals will be less frequently handled.

The Harvard Book online is a pilot project undertaken jointly by the Harvard University Library Preservation Center, the Office for Information Systems, and University Archives, in collaboration with the Harvard College Library Imaging Services Division.

Divinity School

Carman Wins Two Grants

Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Religion John Carman is one of 12 scholars to be named a Lilly Faculty Fellow by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS). He has also received a research and writing award from the Research Enablement Program of the Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven, Conn.

The Lilly Fellowship is part of a new five-year ATS initiative to increase research opportunities for theological scholars. The research award, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, supports writing projects that deal with the world Christian movement and its interaction with the public sphere, particularly in the non-Western world. Both of these awards will support the writing of Carman's new book, Seeds of Christ in Hindu Soil. He will be on leave next fall to pursue this project.

Center on World Religions Receives Grant

The Center for the Study of World Religions has received a grant from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation to support a series of 10 conferences on religions of the world and ecology.

Conferences on Buddhism and ecology and on Confucianism and ecology were held at the Center last year. A third conference on Shinto and ecology took place in March. The remaining conference schedule will include sessions on ecology and Hinduism (October), indigenous traditions (November), Judaism (February 1998), Christianity (April 1998), Islam (May 1998), and Taoism (July 1998). A concluding conference will be held in September 1998. The conferences are chaired by Lawrence Sullivan, director of the Center, and coordinated by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, former visiting senior fellows at the Center who now teach at Bucknell University. The Center will publish the conference papers in a series to be distributed by Harvard University Press.

Forbes Appointed Luce Lecturer

The Rev. Dr. James Forbes Jr., senior minister at the Riverside Church in New York City, has been appointed the inaugural Luce Lecturer in Urban Ministry for 1997-98.

Forbes will teach a course on Emancipation from Poverty: A Faith Strategy for Urban Ministry and co-teach an urban ministry seminar. He will also deliver three lectures or sermons during the year in the Memorial Church. His appointment is supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to establish a program at the Divinity School on urban ministry and the renewal of civil society.

Widely regarded as one of the country's greatest preachers, Forbes is also an educator, administrator, community activist, and interfaith leader. He is a graduate of Howard University and an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches. For many years, he taught preaching at Union Theological Seminary, where he was the Joe R. Engle Professor of Preaching from 1985 to 1989. He also serves on the teaching staff at Auburn Theological Seminary.

Harvard Business School

HBS Research Division Launches Newsletter

The Business School's Division of Research has launched a quarterly newsletter called Working Knowledge that focuses on some of the research being done by Harvard Business School professors in a wide range of subjects.

"As the name of the publication implies," says Dean Kim Clark, "a key part of the School's mission is to build enduring knowledge that will have an impact on both the education of leaders and the practice of general management. This newsletter provides a window on our work."

The first issue focuses on research by faculty members Herminia Ibarra (corporate networking), David Moss (public risk management), Joshua Lerner and Paul Gompers (venture capital), and Gary Pisano (manufacturing innovation).

Working Knowledge is available on the World Wide Web at www.hbs.edu/knowledge. Paper copies can be obtained by calling the HBS Communications Office at 495-6155.