Contents for Oct. 10-16, 1997

• Over the next three years, teams of Brown researchers will use $2.3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to obtain a greater understanding of learning. They hope the research may lead to advances in many areas, from programming artificial intelligence to treating human learning deficits.

• The perils - and possibilities - of parking around campus: Too many cars, too few spaces, and attitudes stuck in first gear. But meet Kurt Teichert, the University's environmental coordinator who practices what he preaches. He has carpooled for four years from Bourne, Mass., with two or three other Brown employees.

• The Rev. Henry Bodah, Catholic chaplain; the Rev. Theodore Wilson II, a Baptist minister; and Rabbi Susan Fendrick, an alumna from the Class of 1984, are three new faces tending to the Brown community's spiritual needs.

• A trio of collections, each with "something to say about the role of libraries, the changing world of information and the growing internationalization of the University," has been chosen to celebrate the arrival of the three-millionth book at Brown.

• Three-million books, but where to put them all? The University places low-use items in the Harvard Depository Library.

• LAST WORD: Professor Lewis P. Lipsitt reflects on why millions of people mourned the loss of Princess Diana.