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July 24-Sept. 3, 1998: New senior vice president for development; Jupiter's moon Io; service response coordinator Rebecca Kanost is an aspiring novelist; using performing arts to teach literacy skills; pilgrimage retraces footsteps of slaves
July 10-23, 1998: New leadership named to Corporation; Brown faculty and AIDS research; perceptions of mentoring; the RISE program offers better education for underprivileged children
June 26-July 9, 1998: New Dean of College; Title IX agreement; untreated pain in nursing home patients; weight-loss expert joins faculty; doctors and students get back to basics of patient care in Kenya; the dish on soaps
June 12-25, 1998: William Simmons will be new provost; task force report on student affairs office; volcanically active sea floor; Gee inauguration speech; new phone system lets students get grades via phone
May 22-June 11, 1998: Commencement 1998: honorary degrees; where the Class of 1998 is heading; an interview with Arlene Gorton, who is leaving Brown after a 37-year career in University athletics; one effort to curb teens' use of alcohol and cigarettes
May 8-21, 1998: UCS Advising Awards; faculty-student appreciation dinner; Cedrick Jennings and "Hope in the Unseen"; UTRA project takes wing; Red Tape Reduction Committee; Women Writers Project excerpts; a century of teacher education at Brown; newsletter from Human Resources
May 1-7, 1998: How Brown scientists work with media; medical student volunteers in Haiti; research about menopause; new book examines motherhood outside the norm; CIS newsletter
April 24-30, 1998: Paula Vogel wins Pulitzer; lessons on the end of the Cold War; OLEEP ropes course with Providence teens; PSTC project for Ethiopia; Brian Hawkins leaving Brown
April 17-23, 1998: Abdel-Malek wins Wriston Fellowship; new videoconference camera technology; new code of conduct for manufacturers of Brown-licensed goods; Faces of Brown witih Roland Garant; newsletter from Human Resources
April 10-16, 1998: International graduate students seek to put down roots; University-RIPTA transportation talks; Year 2000 software compliance; Red Tape Reduction Committee; cultural diversity workshops at P&S; debating character at Brown
April 3-9, 1998: Student on 'College Jeopardy'; National Student-Athlete Day; Staff Development Day; CIS newsletter; Caribbean conference; electronic journals at library; Faces of Brown with Mary O'Reilly; Martin Martel, Bill McLoughlin and anti-racism
March 27-April 2, 1998: New financial aid program expands internship options for students; treatment for drug addicts; Annenberg Institute report on public engagement; study on compliance with open records law; P&S seeking national accreditation; Off Hours with radio gardener Fred Jackson; New Directions Press
March 13-26, 1998: R.I. physicians may be missing opportunities to get smokers to quit; public health policy and the medical community; newsletter from Human Resources; Faces of Brown with Calvin Watts
March 6-12, 1998: Meningitis vaccination clinics; images of moon of Jupiter point to slush below surface; Faces of Brown with Michael Jackson; interview with Constance Baumgarner Gee, first lady of Brown; physician trying to change women's attitudes about muscle and fitness; Brown's first entrepreneurship forum; CIS newsletter
Feb. 27-March 5, 1998: Gee forgoes April inaugural; fierce belief in herself helped postdoctoral researcher succeed; research on fertility probes; Bobby Jindal '92 making a name for himself in health care reform; research for anthropologist Bill Beeman included singing in German musical theater; Gee responds to ACUP recommendations; century of student handbooks reflects changes in life at Brown
Feb. 20-26, 1998: Tuition set for 1998-99; public affairs conference on the arts in America; equestrian team; Off Hours with volunteer firefighter Mark Oribello; minority report to ACUP; reorganization of provost role; a primer on presidential "trystory"
Feb. 13-19, 1998: Seekers of the arts find an array on campus; Gee comments on external review of Brown; Faces of Brown with Thomas Jones; longtime White House reporter rates the presidents; state underutilizes minority-owned businesses, study finds; HIV-infected men and women often hide HIV status from sex partners; ACUP report to Gee; task force on academic/non-academic student life
Feb. 6-12, 1998: Gee addresses his first faculty meeting; who's behind the Brown Bear mask; SATs just one way to evaluate students; CIS newsletter; can we be one America
Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 1998: Changes in Human Resources; trio of perspectives on presidential scandal; pediatric professor and colleagues help R.I. become first in nation to screen newborns for hearing loss; the orphaned girls of India; seminar celebrates diversity on campus; international UTRAs
Jan. 23-29, 1998: The state of research at Brown; three from Brown win prestigious scholarships; results of survey of Brown employees; campus ballroom dance club; WBSR radio station; Steinberg Festival of New Plays; Brown community gazes into the crystal ball
Dec. 5, 1997 -Jan. 22, 1998: Demographic study of Providence; mosaic project unites youngsters, Brown, RISD; 'Star Trek' Borg queen finds way into dissertation; community director program; aspirin sometimes overlooked as treatment for heart attack; CIS newsletter; RUE student from Poland; interactive web page for courses developed as UTRA project
Nov. 21-Dec. 4, 1997: Robin Rose takes part in national dialogue on hate crimes; campus renovations aim to increase Brown's public, academic spaces; engineering student confronts her disability, then sets her sights on high targets
Nov. 14-20, 1997: Pacemaker helps hockey player reclaim place on ice; Ladd Observatory on target for Feb. reopening; Sarah Doyle portrait replaced; D'Souza-Wu debate on affirmative action; looking for a 'win-win-win' among U.S., China, Taiwan; Off Hours with National Guardsman Jim Coccio; Olympians recall quests for medals; U.N. simulation
Nov. 7-13, 1997: Chaperone proteins may hold clue to aging; trick-or-treat at Wriston is 'the bomb'; Walter Feldman and his books; patients with gastrointestinal cancer sought for drug trials; two professors comment on trial of Boston-area nanny; CIS newsletter;
Oct. 31- Nov. 6, 1997: Student helps Filipino-American organization discuss gay rights; the joys of Brown parenthood; Off Hours with tenor Ron Rathier; before there was e-mail, there was longhand correspondence
Oct. 24-30, 1997: Brown geologist set her sights on Martian moons; Banchoff named R.I. Professor of Year; anthropology student's dissertation examines effect of deportation to Azores; Off Hours with Civil War buff Paul Deissler; uniform look for athletic teams; seasonal affective disorder
Oct. 17-23, 1997: CACT renamed Sheridan Center; Kertzer book nominated for national award; Off Hours with marathoner Sara Beliveau; looking back at ancient Egypt through funerary rituals
Oct. 10-16, 1997: Interdisciplinary teams receive $2.3 million from NSF for research into ways humans learn; perils and possibilities of parking around campus; the priest, the minister and the rabbi; Library receives three-millionth volume
Oct. 3-9, 1997: Provost Pomerantz named acting president; new program offers study of Israelis, Palestinians in Jerusalem; research team temporarily thwarts human cells' aging process; student starts Brown chapter of Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network; CIS newsletter
Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 1997: Body dysmorphic disorder; Brown named to national honor roll; author turns from Prozac to couples' relationships; construction of MacMillan Hall; test of Mars laser altimeter; Walter Loiselle retiring as fire marshal; St. Martin's Press gift to Brown
Sept. 19-25, 1997: Interview with Gee on transition; 'shopping season' for undergraduate courses; Diana and Mother Teresa: iconography for the 1990s; Surveyor mission to Mars; portrait of Sarah Doyle stolen; Off Hours with toy collector Ann Killion
Sept. 12-18, 1997: Strategic planning reports head to advisory panels; engineering at Brown observing its 150th anniversary; Off Hours with Ali Cissoko in search of computers for his native country; remembering F.W. de Klerk and South Africa's apartheid; annual campus crime report
Sept. 5-11, 1997: University readies itself for reaccreditation team; Gee is Convocation speaker; Class of 2001 moves in; geologist develops technique to measure velocity of volcanic explosions; Student Life announces changes to disciplinary code; CIS newsletter; Brown Staff Art Show
Aug. 29-Sept. 4, 1997: New concentration in cognitive neuroscience; park bench dedicated to longtime neighbors of Brown; research links weight loss by obese women to improved sex lives; 'Tourist Art' and new collections at Haffenreffer; study of effects of maternal depression on fetus; EEO/AA newsletter; junk mail by e-mail
Thirty-three issues of Volume 21 for academic year 1996-97
Thirty-four issues of Volume 20 for academic year 1995-96