International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has granted Radcliffe $150,000 over the next five years to improve the academic and research opportunites for women majoring in science-related fields, President Horner announced yesterday.

The IBM gift, solicited as a part of the Radcliffe Century Fund Campaign, will support scholarships, a distinguished visitors program, campus internships, and externships in science fields. It will also provide funding for educationally related, on-campus employment and research projects undertaken by women in science departments which might not be able to support them independently.

In a statement released yesterday, Horner said that the IBM grant was "a part of the conceptual effort for career development in science" which Radcliffe was undertaking, and noted that the sciences were traditionally "fields in which the existence of both obvious and subtle barriers to women have been acknowledged."

The money will be dispersed through the Radcliffe president's office. Funded internships will enable undergraduates or first-year graduate students to participate in research in industry and other non-academic areas.