Aloian Dinner honors Campion, Ladd

Heather Campion, director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School, and Florence Ladd, former director of Radcliffe's Bunting Institute, will be honored at the annual David Aloian Dinner and Student/Faculty Award Ceremony to be held Wednesday, April 24, at Quincy House. In addition, students who have been nominated by their Houses for their contributions to intercultural relations will be honored.

The awards event, sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, is dedicated to the memory of David Aloian, who served as director of the Harvard Alumni Association, Master of Quincy House, and director of the Boston Harvard Club. Aloian was concerned with racial tolerance and played an active role in the Harvard Foundation since its inception.

Conference on law and health care to be held at Law School

The Harvard Law and Health Care Society at the Law School will hold its first health law, business, and policy conference, "Beyond Market Integration: The Health Care Industry in the 21st Century," on Saturday, April 26, in Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The conference will bring together leading health care lawyers, professors, policymakers, advocates, businesspersons, consultants, and investment bankers to discuss the future of the U.S. health care system.

The keynote speaker will be Kenneth Thorpe, former deputy assistant secretary of health and human services for health policy and planning for the Clinton Administration and currently a faculty member at Tulane University.

Admission is free and lunch will be served but spaces are limited. Register by calling 495-3792 or e-mail to ecpark@law.harvard.edu.

Forum on welfare reform and public service planned

Mary Jo Bane, professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and former U.S. assistant secretary of health and human services, will speak at a forum on welfare reform and public service next week. The event, to be held Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. in Science Center E, is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Public Service. A panel discussion will follow with Committee chair Theda Skocpol (moderator); Kennedy School instructor Marshall Ganz; and Donna Cabral, Head Start director, Community Action Agency of Somerville.