October 3, 2002

New senior tutors The new Allston Burr Senior Tutors, central to academic matters in undergraduate living, include (from left) Stephen Kargere, John "Jay" Ellison, Carole Mandryk, and Coral Fernandez-Illescas. Paulette Curtis is not pictured. (Staff photo by Stephanie Mitchell) Full story

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Campus news and events

• Meet Harvard's new Allston Burr Senior Tutors
  Five new Allston Burr Senior Tutors bring fresh perspectives to houses

• 2002-03 Radcliffe Institute Dean's Lecture Series begins with Stanford social scientist Claude Steele
  Scholar to discuss how negative stereotypes threaten academic identity and performance

• Happy birthday
  President Lawrence H. Summers honors Mary Yacubian on her 87th birthday for her years of service to Harvard

Awards and fellowships

• Recipients named for 50th Anniversary Fellowships
  Scholars in Medicine Program honors family, diversity

• IOP announces fall fellows
  Assistant secretary general of UN, recent U.S. ambassador to Mexico, and President Kennedy's advisor and speechwriter among fellows

• Shorenstein Center names fall fellows
  Editor of feminist journal in Iran, peace and disarmament correspondent, and former editor-in-chief of Financial Times are among fellows

• Kuwait Fund accepting grant proposals
  Committee will consider applications for one-year grants to support advanced research by Harvard faculty members

In memoriam

• Memorial Minute, Faculty of Medicine: Charles Sprecher Davidson
  

  Memorial services set: Dorfman, Monro, Villars to be remembered
  

President Summers and Provost Hyman set office hours

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