The University is conducting a six-week training program for 56 peace corps volunteers this summer. The trainees, about a third of them women, are living in Whitman Hall, at Radcliffe.

All of the volunteers will be working on public health projects in rural Nyasaland, or Malawi, as it will be called when it becomes independent one week from today. Along with lectures on American and African history and government, and on the characteristics of the region they will be working in, they are receiving intensive training in Cinyanja, the language spoken by most of the natives of Malawi.

Health Training

At the end of the six-week session' the trainees will go to the University of North Carolina, for public health training, particularly in the prevention of tuberculosis.

Two of the orientation lectures will be open to the public. Martin L. Kilson, lecturer on Government, will speak Thursday on "The New Negro Advance;" George Shepperson, professor of African and Commonwealth History at the University of Edinburgh, will speak July 14 on "Negro-American Influences on African Nationalism."

Both lectures will be held in Cabot Hall at Radcliffe, and will begin at 7:30 p.m.

This summer's training program is the second that Harvard has run for the Peace Corps. In the summer of 1961 the University trained volunteers headed for Nigeria.