Conference on Women, Minorities in Science to be Held

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will examine how women and minorities can reach the upper echelons of scientific and technical fields on Friday and Saturday in its Annual Student and Faculty Science Conference.

Lynda M. Jordan, the Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the 1995 White House Honoree for Women in Science, Technology and Engineering will deliver the keynote speech at an afternoon luncheon.

After the luncheon, there will be student and faculty scientific presentations from 2:30 to 5 p.m. in Pforzheimer House's Hastings Room. A panel discussion will take place 6 to 8 p.m. at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum.

The conference, which continues Saturday with presentations to Boston and Cambridge public school children, is cosponsored by Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe, Harvard Society for Black Scientists and Engineers, Hispanics in Engineering, Medicine and Informational Services and Minority Biomedical Scientists of Harvard.

Registration will be from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Friday.