PERILS FOR MEDICAL RESEARCHERS
The growing influence of corporate funds threatens academic freedom at teaching hospitals, according to speakers at a conference held by the American Association of University Professors: A14

TRACKING THE JOB MARKET
Four World-Wide Web sites report the latest news and rumors on the progress of efforts to fill academic posts in physics and astronomy: A15

PEER REVIEW
Ideology may have affected choices for law deans at the University of Notre Dame and Boston College. A noted political scientist is moving from Boston University to B.C. And a historian has opted not to reapply for tenure at Stanford University: A52

RETHINKING ACADEMIC CONCLAVES
The annual meetings of scholarly associations no longer serve the purposes they were designed for, argues Glenn Altschuler, a professor of American studies and dean of continuing education and summer sessions at Cornell University: B8

THE ASSOCIATION of Catholic Colleges and Universities has proposed an alternative to guidelines approved by U.S. bishops to institute Ex corde Ecclesiae, the Pope's statement on church-academic relations: A14

A FORMER PROFESSOR'S lawsuit against Emory University is going to trial amid criticism of evidence that he vandalized an Emory building: A16

A STATE JUDGE has denied a bid by a controversial feminist theologian to stop Boston College from declaring that she is retired: A16

FIVE WOMEN are leaving Florida State University's law faculty, saying that a group of elitist professors there has belittled their views: A16

THE DEAN of Harvard University's Divinity School was asked to resign last fall after pornography was reportedly found on his university-owned computer: A10

12 BILLION YEARS
By precisely measuring the rate at which galaxies are flying apart -- the long-sought Hubble constant -- a team of astronomers was able to estimate the age of the universe, as of last week: A17

• Determining a value for the Hubble constant -- one of the main unresolved questions of astronomy -- took eight years of detailed measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope: A18

• Would Shakespeare's plays by any other bard be as sweet? Some scholars believe they can prove that an earl in the court of Elizabeth I was the real playwright: A22

• The supposed creator of the drawing, Henry Peacham, also figures in the Shakespearean-authorship controversy: A19

HOT TYPE
A noted psychiatrist resigned from The American Scholar's editorial board over a "diagnosis" of Lionel Trilling that it published. A new book of essays explores the tension between black Americans and gay people: A24

DIAGNOSING TRILLING
The literary critic Lionel Trilling's son, James, has provoked a storm of unfair criticism by suggesting that his late father suffered from attention-deficit disorder, writes Mark Krupnick, a professor of literature at the University of Chicago and a Trilling biographer: B7

STRESSFUL EVENTS and a lack of social support have been found to hasten the onset of AIDS in H.I.V.-positive men: A18

THE LARVAE of monarch butterflies die when they eat the pollen of a genetically engineered corn, according to Cornell University researchers: A24

WOMEN'S BRAINS have a higher proportion of gray matter than do men's brains, say University of Pennsylvania scientists: A24

IMPULSIVE CHILDREN are more prone to suffer injuries, according to a University of Iowa study: A24

MENINGITIS is more common among students who live on campus than off, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University researchers: A45

ENGINEERS at the University of Florida and Arizona State University vied recently in a small-plane competition: A12

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS: A25-27

• Nota Bene: The Preacher's Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy, by Franco Mormando.

THE SPENCER FOUNDATION has announced the names of the 1999 Spencer Dissertation Fellows for Research Related to Education: A53

WALKING THROUGH THE DATA
Researchers at Brown University hope to understand their work better by using a virtual-reality environment at the new Technology Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Visualization: A31

PUBLISHER TO OPEN A UNIVERSITY
Harcourt General, the corporate parent of a major textbook publisher, plans to create a for-profit institution that will offer degrees using distance-learning technologies: A32

INTERACTIVE FORMAT FOR PAPERS
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a Web-based system that allows critics to provide quick feedback to authors: A34

PUTTING A TV ARCHIVE ON LINE
Vanderbilt University's library of old newscasts wants to digitize its holdings to make them available to scholars, but the television networks, asserting their copyrights, don't like the idea: A35

MORE STUDENTS are saying that they check the content and quality of courses' World-Wide Web pages before deciding whether to enroll: A31

JARGON MONITOR: "Plug and pray": A31

A WORLD-WIDE WEB SITE at Ohio University called Wired for Books offers contemporary and canonical works, as well as recordings of readings: A37

SIX RESOURCES ON LINE, reviews of information-technology stories in three magazines, and two software programs on disk: A37

'THE BODY' AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Minnesota's Reform Party Governor, Jesse Ventura, has ideas and rhetoric that are shaking up many students and educators. Since his upset election, he has assumed a familiar role from his days as a wrestler and talk-show host: A38

RULING ON GENDER BIAS
The U.S. Supreme Court found that educational institutions where officials are "deliberately indifferent" to a student's sexual harassment of a peer may be violating federal laws: A40

LIFTING A BAN
The National Bioethics Advisory Commission is preparing to recommend that certain kinds of research on human embryos be allowed to receive federal support: A41

A POWERFUL STATE LEGISLATOR who has backed Arkansas' two-year colleges has been indicted on 132 racketeering charges: A38

A DISPLAY last month at the U.S. Capitol of products developed from Pentagon-supported research drew few lawmakers: A38

IN A BID to become a major lender, Sallie Mae has moved to buy Nellie Mae: A41

THE LOS ANGELES Community College District has chosen as its new chancellor a former president of Eastern Washington University, who resigned last year under fire: A42

TWO PROFESSORS at Texas Southern University have accused the state of discriminating against historically black colleges by sending more state funds to predominantly white institutions: A42

A REPORT by a group of social scientists and lawyers urged colleges to keep their affirmative-action policies: A42

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES approved a tuition break for residents of the District of Columbia: A42

A BILL introduced by Republicans in the House of Representatives would consolidate funds for teacher-training programs and send the money directly to local schools: A42

THE CHAIRMAN of the National Endowment for the Humanities asked a Senate committee to approve President Clinton's budget request for the N.E.H.: A42

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES of Health has issued guidelines to make government-grown marijuana more accessible for use in research: A12

GIFTS TO COLLEGES RISE 15%
Private donations to higher education rose at the fastest rate since 1986, and reached $18.4-billion in 1998, according to a report by the Council for Aid to Education: A43

• Fact File: voluntary support of higher education, 1997-98: A44

BILL AND MELINDA GATES will hold a $1-million-a-plate dinner for Duke University. Only people who have given that amount to Duke may attend: A43

THE OUTGOING DEAN of Stanford University's law school will lead the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: A43

OFFICIALS of the University of Maryland at College Park have apologized for using the trademarked image of a pepper sauce in its summer course catalogue: A10

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY was the setting for the filming of a Hollywood movie, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle: A12

FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A44

A FICTIONAL FRESHMAN
Felicity, the hit drama series on the WB network about a student's first year at a college in New York City, is attracting a following among students and some educators: A45

PREDICTING GRADUATION RATES
A U.S. Education Department study says that the rigor of students' high-school course work, not their grades or test scores, is the best way to forecast whether they will finish college: A46

MENINGITIS is more common among students who live on campus than off, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University researchers: A45

A RESTAURANT in a residence hall has improved the menu at Loyola College in Maryland: A45

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY is demolishing a dormitory under the stands of its football stadium: A10

DEADLINE FOR GENDER EQUITY
Colleges in the California State University System are struggling to meet the goals of a court agreement on women's athletics programs: A47

THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT says it will investigate colleges where coaches of women's teams appear not to be paid fairly: A47

ATHLETICS OFFICIALS at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus were accused by protesters last month of covering up investigations of athletes' wrongdoing: A10

LIMITED GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA
A lack of funds for needy students and new competition from private institutions have led to a slowdown in enrollment increases at public institutions: A49

HELP FOR SOME KOSOVO ACADEMICS
The Polytechnic University of Tirana, in Albania, has opened its doors to scholars and students who have been driven out of their homeland by Serb forces: A51

INDIA CRACKS DOWN ON FRAUD
The government has begun a campaign against scores of illegal colleges, diploma mills, and fake universities that prey on students who fail to gain admission to legitimate institutions: A51

A MONUMENT IN YEMEN
Over 17 years, with unfailing devotion, an Iraqi scholar has guided the restoration of a centuries-old Islamic treasure: B2

KAZAKHSTAN UNIVERSITIES will start charging steep tuitions in the fall: A49

BRITISH PROFESSORS staged walkouts last week over their demand for higher wages: A49

IF IT PLEASES THE CLASS ...
Tongues somewhat in cheek, Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George present a modern-day guide to instant popularity for the pedagogically perplexed. Mr. Douglas is an assistant professor of law, jurisprudences, and social thought, and Mr. George is an associate professor of philosophy; both are at Amherst College: A60

NATURE AND CULTURE
Many people assume that behaviors shown by members of a species are not learned, writes the primatologist Frans B.M. de Waal, but his study of macaque monkeys reveals otherwise. The author is a professor of psychology and director of the Living Links Center at Emory University: B4

DIAGNOSING TRILLING
The literary critic Lionel Trilling's son, James, has provoked a storm of unfair criticism by suggesting that his late father suffered from attention-deficit disorder, writes Mark Krupnick, a professor of literature at the University of Chicago and a Trilling biographer: B7

RETHINKING ACADEMIC CONCLAVES
The annual meetings of scholarly associations no longer serve the purposes they were designed for, argues Glenn Altschuler, a professor of American studies and dean of continuing education and summer sessions at Cornell University: B8

THE OLD CHALK AND BLACKBOARD
Even with the many advantages of interactive learning at hand, some students prefer to do no more than sit down, take notes, and be tested, says Mark A. Benvenuto, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Detroit Mercy: B9

MARGINALIA: mistakes, foibles, and other amusements on the lighter side of academe: A10

MELANGE: selections from recent books, magazines, and journals of interest to academe: B10

• Do graduate programs in the sciences have too many foreign students?: B3

• More information about faculty salaries: B11

• "Lack of passion" among professors: B11

• Welfare reform and education: B11

• Union activism in academe: B11

• Abstract painting in the modern world: B11

• Construction at Emory part of master plan: B11

A MONUMENT IN YEMEN
Over 17 years, with unfailing devotion, an Iraqi scholar has guided the restoration of a centuries-old Islamic treasure: B2

ART OF GLASS
A renaissance among American artists in the medium has spread during the past 30 years. Some of their work is on display at the Huntsville Museum of Art, in Alabama: B68

• APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS on U.S. campuses.

• DEATHS of people in academe.

• COMING EVENTS: conferences, workshops, and seminars.

• DEADLINES for fellowships, grants, the submission of papers, and more.

DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe.