Widener Library to begin new admittance policy in March

Beginning Monday, March 1, all people entering Widener Library will be required to display a Harvard University ID or other authorized pass (stack pass, hall use privilege card, Friends ID, or Harvard College Library one-day pass) to Library door personnel before gaining admittance.

Any individual who enters through the main door and does not have the appropriate identification will be directed to the Privileges Office during regular business hours (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.) or will go through a registration process with the door personnel after hours and on weekends. Those without ID who enter the library through the Massachusetts Avenue door will register with the door personnel at all times.

Housing Summer Dissertation Fellowships Available

The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering fellowship awards for the summer of 1999 for doctoral candidates at Harvard who are writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic that is consistent with the Center's research agenda.

Applications are due by April 15. Stipends of up to $2,000 will be awarded. Acceptance of the award comes with the understanding that the Center will have the option of publishing the paper, or a portion thereof, as a Joint Center Working Paper, or publishing it in the annual The State of the Nation's Housing Report.

For further information, contact Eric Belsky, executive director, 496-4991, or Pamela Baldwin, deputy director, 495-9850.

Grants for Courses and Research on Children Offered

The Harvard Children's Initiative invites proposals from Harvard faculty and students wishing to pursue new interdisciplinary collaborations focusing on children. The New Collaborations Fund will provide grants of $500 to $5,000 to cover expenses related to new research, teaching, and community activities concerning children's development. Working groups should include at least two Harvard faculty members from two different schools or disciplines and a designated Harvard faculty leader. Send a two- to three-page description of the topic and activities, time frame, and budget. Applications should not exceed five pages. Applications are due April 15. For more information and an application, contact the Harvard Children's Initiative, New Collaborations Fund, 126 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138, at 496-4938 or hci@harvard.edu, http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~hci.