UBC Forestry dean appointed to second term

Clark Binkley has accepted an appointment to a second term as dean
of the Faculty of Forestry. A former professor of Forest Resource
Management at Yale University, he has served as dean of Forestry
at UBC since September 1990. His first term ended in June.

Under Binkley’s supervision the faculty has undergone significant
changes including the introduction of new initiatives such as the
Wood Products Processing Program, the Natural Resources Conservation
Program, the Centre for Applied Conservation Biology and the construction
of a new Forest Sciences Centre. Undergraduate enrolment has more
than doubled from 265 in 1990/91 to 598 this year, while graduate
enrolment during the same period has increased from 119 to 204 students.
Extramural research funding to the faculty has also increased significantly
during the dean’s first term.

Binkley received his PhD in Forestry and Environmental Studies
from Yale in 1979. He studied applied mathematics during his undergraduate
years at Harvard and received a Master of Science in Engineering
from Harvard in 1976.

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