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"The AIBS Council shall review the actions of the AIBS Board of Directors, make recommendations for action and response, consider agenda items brought before it, initiate agenda items, and elect four of its members to the Board."
— AIBS Constitution, Article VII (extract)

AIBS can achieve success in its federation activities with its members only with the active participation and inclusion of the AIBS Council in AIBS affairs. It's a two-way street—please let us know what we could be doing better! Contact: .

We encourage the participation of presidents and executive directors, as well as their designated representatives, in Council activities. For a directory of AIBS Council members and other membership information, see our Member Society and Organization Directory — corrections and updates are always appreciated.

Presentation slides from past meetings:

2009 AIBS COUNCIL MEETING 20 May, Washington, DC

Presentations:

• Guest Presentation: Encyclopedia of Life. Marie Studer (PDF, 1.8 MB)

• Guest Presentation: Updates on Funding Opportunities in the NSF Biology Directorate. Judith Skog (PDF, 112 KB)

• Guest Presentation: Updates on Funding Opportunities in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Gisele Muller-Parker (PDF, 624 KB)

• Guest Presentation: Updates on Publishing Performance of the BioOne Online Journals Initiative. Mark Kurtz (PDF, 348 KB) www.BioOne.org.

• AIBS Publishing activities: including discussions of BioScience, ActionBioscience.org, and the potential for collaborative publishing projects with AIBS members. (PDF, 315 KB)

• AIBS Public policy and public affairs activities: including outlooks on science policy & science funding; AIBS public policy and media communications training services; evolution / creationism issues; how member societies and organizations can benefit from partnering with the AIBS Public Policy Office. (PDF, 115 KB)

• AIBS Education activities: including a follow-up report from the May 2008 AIBS Biology Education Summit and discussion of AIBS collaborative work with other organizations and programs in undergraduate biology education. (PDF, 1.1 MB)

• Year of Science 2009 / Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science updates - now with 800 participating organizations. (PDF, 7.8 MB)

2008 AIBS COUNCIL MEETING, 14 May in Washington DC

Council meeting briefing book online here (PDF, 1 MB)

COPUS and Year of Science 2009 briefing book online here (PDF, 1.83 MB)

Presentations:

• Guest Presentation: BioOne Online Publishing Program. Susan Skomal, Mark Kurtz, and Lauren Kane.(PDF, 8.57 M)

• Guest Presentation: Encyclopedia of Life. Marie Studer and Thomas Garnett. (PDF, 2 M)

• AIBS Presentation: Public Policy / Public Affairs Activities. Megan Kelhart and Holly Menninger. (PDF, 617 KB)

• National Science Foundation Presentation: Updates on NSF Biology Directorate Activities. Judith E. Skog. (PDF, 147 KB)

• AIBS Presentation: Year of Science 2009 / Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science. Sheri Potter and Holly Menninger. (PDF, 2 M)