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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Panel: Tibet victim of China's 'siege mentality'
Ignoring Tibet won't make it go away. That is the message the People's Republic of China needs to hear, according to authorities on the Tibet situation who spoke Nov. 2 at a panel discussion at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.

National prize honors biography by Malmstad
The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) selection committee for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize awarded John E. Malmstad, professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University, and Nikolay Bogomolov, professor of Russian Literature at University of Moscow, Russia, with an honorable mention for "Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art," published by Harvard University Press.

First fellow named by interfaculty health policy group
The Interfaculty Health Policy Forum has announced Nancy Ann DeParle will be its first Forum Fellow. She will be in residence during the 2000-01 academic year. DeParle served as the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1997 to 2000. HCFA is the nation's largest health insurance program, providing services to 74 million Americans through Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Radcliffe Public Policy Center appoints new associate director
Pamela Stone, a sociologist specializing in work and gender, assumed her position as the new associate director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Center (RPPC) on Sept. 5. A former Radcliffe fellow and department chair at Hunter College, Stone holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

Two-year appointment awarded to Edington
Fellowship in honor of Dean Archie Epps targets spiritual life of undergraduates

Ukrainian Research Institute creates new fellowships
The Ukrainian Research Institute (URI) at the University has created a new program of postdoctoral fellowships. The Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies are designed to bring distinguished scholars from around the world to Harvard each year to complete their research and publication work on projects dealing with Ukrainian history, literature, music, and culture. The first Shklar Fellows will begin their residency in the 2001-02 academic year and will be selected through an international competition.

Memorial for David Bell is set for Nov. 17
There will be a memorial service for David Elliott Bell on Friday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m., at the Memorial Church. Bell, the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Population Sciences and International Health Emeritus, died Sept. 6 after a brief illness. In lieu of flowers, his family requests that donations be sent to the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont, P.O. Box 1486, Brattleboro, VT 05302.

Sexual assault is reported
According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a sexual assault occurred in an undergraduate residence hall in Harvard Yard on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 4:30 a.m.

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