Contents for Sept. 11-17, 1998

• With new people in place, Gee looks ahead to challenges of the coming year, the possibility of adding a vice president for campus life and student services.

• Paula Vogel's three lessons on education, offered at Opening Convocation.

• More than 120 staff members take part in BEARS (Brown Early Arrival Response System) to help newcomers move in.

• Change your perspective. Here are places where you can get a bird's-eye view of campus.

• FACES OF BROWN: David B. Boucher, detective with Police and Security

• To sleep ... perchance to dream: "Larks" and "owls" tend sleep lab subjects.

• And speaking of sleep, Brown receives a grant to develop a sleep education curriculum for use in medical schools.

• Aluminum vs. wooden bats: Brown bioengineers build an apparatus to measure the speed of a hit ball. The machine is expected to help bat manufacturers comply with new NCAA regulations.

• Brown's Institute for Elementary and Secondary Education teams up with the Rhode Island Training School to provide teachers there with mentoring, technology and the training to use that technology to help young people make it in the outside world.