The Carnegie Foundation will today a $160,000 grant to Harvard Columbia, and Cornell University to finance a three-year program of undergraduate work and study in Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico.

A group of six undergraduates from college will spend three months this living among the Indians of the underdeveloped countries of Latin America. Professional anthropologists will accompany the students on the program and join them in working with and studying the local Indians.

undergraduate of the College of Radcliffe is eligible to apply for the program, regardless of his field of concentration. All participants will take special courses in the Spring Term. Scholarships for students unable to meet expenses of the project will be provided the Foundation.

a pilot program last year seven and Radcliffe students spent summer in the highland areas of Central and South America. The success project led the Foundation to expand the program this year, and perhaps include other colleges in the future.

The project is part of an attempt to students a deeper understanding international problems, by offering the opportunity to live in underdeveloped countries," Evon Z. Vogt, of Social Anthropology, explained week. The usual study-abroad according to Vogt, fall in this .