Contents for April 24-30, 1998

• Brown playwright Paula Vogel wins a Pulitzer Prize.

• Brian Hawkins, senior vice president for academic planning and administrative affairs, is leaving Brown to lead a national association for managing and applying information technology in higher education.

• Key policy-makers from the United States and the former Soviet Union will gather at Brown to analyze the end of the Cold War and determine what policy lessons might be learned.

• By climbing a 55-foot tower in Chester, Conn., high-school pupils and their mentors from Brown's Outdoor Leadership and Experiential Education Program learn that success comes in many forms.

• Brown's Population Studies and Training Center helps Ethiopia take a statistical snapshot of a region. The data will help policy-makers improve the livelihoods of the region's residents.

• Last Word: Making syringes easier to acquire would stem Rhode Island's high AIDS rate, say Josiah D. Rich, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine, and Laura Dokson, a Brown senior.