Program

Public Programs: Special Projects

Period of Performance

9/1/1977 - 2/28/1978

Funding Totals

$38,230.00 (approved)
$38,230.00 (awarded)


The Rene Dubos Environmental Forum

FAIN: GP-10351-77

Rene' Dubos Center for Human Environments (Bronx, NY 10471-2801)
William R. Eblen (Project Director: September 1977 to present)

To plan for the implementation of an Environmental Forum that: (1) calls for the critical examination of existing assumptions about clearly defined environmental problems; (2) demonstrates the relevance of information and insights from the disciplines of the humanities to these topics; and(3) disseminates the information through existing networks and mass media. Rene Dubos is an eminent microbiologist and Pulitzer Prize winning author of a number of books on the humanistic implications of technology and the environment.