With its own staff, endowment and building, the IOP has the resources to join with other organizations to host dinners with political luminaries, arrange student-professional conferences and provide undergraduate internships.
The IOP supported the Harvard AIDS Coalition in hosting an AIDS week last April, for example, and a forum on the terrorist attacks drew hundreds yesterday afternoon. By expanding publicity, Tucker hopes to bring even more students to the IOP.
The outreach committee will have its first meeting next week, and all interested undergraduates are welcome.
“There is no doubt in my mind that there needed to be a home for outreach at the IOP,” Tucker said. “Now there will be a group of people dedicated to letting the campus know about all of the resources it has to offer.”