YIBS Five Year Report
YIBS as a Communication Forum
In addition to its academic research and education activities, the Institute serves as a convener of academic and public audiences around environmental and scientific issues of common concern. While the Institute has focused primarily on building internal collaborations in its first five years, it has taken some initial steps in developing a public role beyond that already played by individual faculty by:
- Sponsoring the Yale in the Environment conference, February 9-10, 1993. This two-day conference brought Yale faculty together with environmental leaders to discuss current environmental issues and explore Yale's role in addressing them. A total of 96 faculty, students, External Advisory Board members, and invited guests attended the two-day sessions.
- Providing financial support for conferences sponsored by affiliated or germane organizations within the Yale community.
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- Ecorealism: Toward the Next Generation of Environmental Policy was sponsored by the Yale Student Environmental Coalition and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy with support from the Institute.
- The decadal UN conference on demographic policy, most recently held in Cairo in September 1994, is typically followed by local conferences aimed at national implementation. One such follow-up conference was held at Yale under the joint sponsorship of the Institute and a variety of other Yale and non-Yale groups.
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- Producing written communications to keep the university community, Institute supporters from multiple sectors, and prospective students in participating academic Departments apprised of the Institute's mission, activities, and achievements of participating faculty and students.
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- The Yale Environmental News was launched in summer 1995 to provide timely news of environmental research, programs, and events. The second issue of what will become a quarterly publication has recently been released; circulation is currently 1000.
- The Institute's annual publications "Molecular Evolution at Yale" and "Theoretical Biology at Yale" are distributed to all applicants for graduate study through the Department of Biology.
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- Maintaining sites on the World Wide Web from which interested parties can retrieve information concerning research, findings, articles, and published and internally reviewed unpublished manuscripts.
Informing the scientific community of its research outcomes through published articles in refereed journals; these publications are listed by Center. Access this list here.
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