To contemplate the rate at which the world's knowledge is increasing is to appreciate the challenge faced by the University on Science Hill. Areas of study that did not exist twenty years ago are primary specialties today. In order to maintain a distinguished position among universities in the United States, Yale must be able to attract the most gifted and talented faculty and graduate students with up-to-date facilities that foster collaboration and innovation and it must be able to meet the growing demand for undergraduate science education in up-to-date and well equipped teaching laboratories.

Physical interconnectivity of departments is crucial to fostering the kind of spontaneous and fruitful exchange that leads to new projects and new scientific insights. In order to support the move to greater excellence in science, initial proposals would arrange Science Hill into two integrated groups. The southern half of the hill would constitute an "environmental campus," which would include units primarily concerned with whole organisms or whole natural systems. The Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Department of Geology and Geophysics, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Institute for Biospheric Studies, and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies would all be interrelated in this plan. To facilitate collaboration among investigators whose studies focus primarily on molecular and subatomic processes, the northern half of Science Hill would include the departments of Chemistry; Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Physics; and Astronomy.

As the need for modern research facilities has grown more urgent, the ability to fund their renovation through indirect expense reimbursement and direct government support of facilities is being increasingly curtailed. As a result, donor support has become increasingly important in meeting Yale's need for modern science facilities. Campaign giving led to construction of the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Center for Molecular and Structural Biology on Science Hill, a laboratory building that facilitates integration of related disciplines in keeping with Yale's current vision. Gifts toward construction of this new center came from Mr. and Mrs. Perry R. Bass as well as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Edward P. Bass '67, '72 Art.A. made Campaign gifts including a matching gift for an environmental science facility and a gift for renovation of Osborn Memorial Laboratories, in addition to contributing to endowed programmatic support for the new Institute of Biospheric Studies. More than $55 million has been contributed for science facilities during the Campaign.

Each of the arts programs at Yale occupies a position of pre-eminence in its respective field of endeavor. The University Art Gallery and Center for British Art are noted for their collections. Their buildings, both designed by the late Louis Kahn, have become architectural icons, as renowned in some circles as their art is revered in others. The depth and plurality of resources available to scholars, students, aspiring practioners and the simply curious are enviable among academic institutions.

While the solitary struggle of an individual is perhaps the most easily coined image of art education, the reality is one of a joint collaboration between the individual and the community. Group critiques at every stage of painting, architectural projects, sculpture, graphic design and dramatic performance have long been the foundation of the best arts programs. Opportunities for a broader and more social sharing of the diverse experiences and the kind of interactions that inform the creative process have been encouraged at Yale by the close proximity of the programs.

The issues that precipitated the Arts Area Study included physical deterioration of buildings, lack of space, and dispersion of programs and resources. The Art and Architecture (A+A) Building, the Kahn Art Gallery and the University Theater required attention to their basic systems. Many of the other buildings were in some combination of disrepair and programmatic inadequacy. The Schools of Drama and Art needed to consolidate their scattered programs. The Schools of Art and Architecture together had outgrown the building they shared. Only a small fraction of the University Art Gallery's collection was on view. Many works were housed in less than optimal conditions and in off-site commercial storage. The resources of the Art and Architecture Library are now separately housed in A+A and the Sterling and Mudd Libraries. The plan addressed these issues and also identified ways to improve the facilities for teaching art history.

The Arts Area Plan will provide a new home for the School of Art, as well as an experimental theater for the School of Drama. The former Jewish Community Center on Chapel Street has been acquired by the University and architectural plans are under development to renovate this building to serve as teaching, studio, gallery and office space for the School of Art and performance space for the Drama School. Construction is expected to begin in the summer of 1998 with occupancy scheduled for the fall of 1999. When the School of Art vacates the Art and Architecture building, it, in turn, will be renovated to house the School of Architecture as well as the Arts Library. A newly developed library service will provide enhanced circulation and delivery services for the libraries' collections in the arts, whether shelved at A+A or the Sterling or Mudd Libraries. The renovated facilities will be equipped with modern technology and, notably, an innovative Digital Media Center for the Arts.

Also expected to emerge from the Arts Area Plan is the renovation of the buildings which house the Art Gallery and Department of Art History -- the Kahn and Swartwout buildings and Street Hall. The scope of this work will in part be determined by the success of fund-raising efforts. If such efforts are particularly successful, the University may also construct a new Art Study Building to provide storage for the Gallery's growing collection. This building is conceived as allowing greater collection accessibility, increased storage, and enhanced teaching opportunities through classrooms designed to permit the study of works of art at firsthand.

The University appreciates the many gifts made during the Campaign for arts facilities and collections, by Paul Mellon '29, Richard Brown Baker '35, the late Senator Henry John Heinz III '60 and Mrs. Theresa Heinz, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Mayer '50, Thurston Twigg-Smith '42 and others including an anonymous donor.

The arts at Yale are a relevant and valuable contribution to the University's urban setting in New Haven. Just as the creation of the Center for British Art, with shopping areas on the ground floor, has enhanced the commercial vitality of upper Chapel Street, an enlarged and more active presence of art and theater will further invigorate this area.

While the Area Studies address the renovation needs of over half of the square footage on campus, there are many facilities which fall outside these areas. Yale Campaign contributions have also supported the individual construction and renovation projects centered on these facilities, as described below.

A project to renovate Linsly-Chittenden Hall, one of the University's major classroom buildings, results in large part from a generous Campaign gift from former Senior Fellow Sid R. Bass '65, who also helped underwrite the renovation of another central campus classroom building, William L. Harkness Hall. In addition, the generosity of the Henry R. Luce Foundation provided for a major addition on campus, Henry R. Luce Hall on Hillhouse Avenue, home of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

The carvings of classroom scenes and gargoyles on the outside of the Law School building have attracted the attention of generations of Yale students. The renovation of the Sterling Law Building is designed to provide modern facilities appropriate to the School's academic mission while maintaining the building's remarkable neo-Gothic beauty and restoring its renowned details. Classrooms, offices and student facilities in the High Street wing and the Lillian Goldman Law Library in memory of Sol Goldman (thanks to a generous gift from Lillian Goldman) are the focus of work begun this summer. As part of the renovation, enhancements will be made to the existing structure to improve the layout of the space and increase accessibility. As of this summer, offices located in the Grove Street and Ruttenberg Hall wings of the building were completely renovated, along with the plaza level of the Lillian Goldman Law Library and some student dormitory facilities. Ruttenberg Hall, the thoroughly restored and renovated Wall Street wing of Yale Law School, resulted from a commitment from Derald H. Ruttenberg '40 LL.B.

Gifts to the School of Medicine will be used for the construction of a five-story addition to the Sterling Hall of Medicine for the Child Study Center. Donors toward medical facilities renovation and expansion include Herbert W. Boyer, Jr. (parent '90) and the W. M. Keck Foundation for the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, and Irving B. Harris '31 and Neison Harris '36 for the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine.

No discussion of building renovation would be complete without consideration of the facilities which generate the power that keeps Yale running. Yale University has produced steam for its own use since 1917 at the Central Power Plant using the eight original coal-burning, brick-set boilers, each as large as a small house. Over the years, these boilers were incrementally modified to accept oil and natural gas and equipped with more contemporary controls. Steam-driven chillers were added later to feed the air conditioning systems increasingly in demand.

However, despite these efforts to modernize, the brick-set boilers in the Central Plant still operated well below contemporary efficiency standards. Further boiler modifications were limited by new stringent and complex Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulations. Concurrently, chilled water demand increased dramatically as new buildings with intensive year-round programs sprang up around the campus.

The magnitude of changes required to achieve the best contemporary standards of efficiency and environmental compliance required the best available technology. A wide range of options were considered before ultimately deciding on a combined system of cogeneration and conventional package boilers to generate Yale's power. The Power Plant Modernization Program is designed to assure a reliable steam and electric supply and comply with DEP emissions regulations, while keeping power costs as low as possible.

A reliable steam and electric supply will be provided to the Central and Science campuses by three combustion turbine cogeneration units with dual gas or oil fuel capability. Fuel oil is storable, further ensuring an uninterrupted power supply. Three diesel generators will be installed to provide Yale with a flexible system for producing emergency and maintenance power. As an additional backup, Yale will maintain an interconnection with United Illuminating's electric system. Based on projections, this configuration allows Yale to meet the steam needs of its Central and Science campuses to the year 2008, even in the event of a breakdown of its largest boiler.

The Central Power Plant renovation will also significantly reduce airborne emissions. The use of natural gas combustion turbines with selective catalytic reduction emission controls as the primary fuel-burning equipment will provide the cleanest burning units presently available. Air emissions will be further reduced by installing similar controls on the diesel generators used for emergency, maintenance and peak generating purposes.

Power costs will be kept low by the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the new cogeneration facility which the University is installing at the Central Power Plant. It will use gas combustion turbines to produce both electricity and steam in the process known as cogeneration. The overall efficiency of a cogeneration system is higher than a conventional steam electric power plant because of its ability to extract more of the available energy of a fuel by simultaneous production of steam and electricity. The cogenerated steam will be used to both heat buildings and chill water for cooling. The addition of duct burners will further increase fuel conversion efficiencies to 90%. Moreover, dual fuel capability lowers power costs by allowing the use of whichever fuel is available at the lowest price.

In sum, these Central Power Plant renovations and related improvements will allow Yale to significantly improve the efficiency of the conversion of fuel to useful energy by producing substantially more energy with less fuel than it currently burns, thus reducing operating costs, while complying with emissions standards.

Yale's future and that of the City of New Haven are inextricably intertwined. Even as there has been an increased focus on renovation of the campus, President Levin has led a vigorous effort to build a partnership between Yale and the City of New Haven to improve not only the University's surroundings, but also the City of New Haven as a whole. Yale adopted a framework for a more ambitious New Haven Initiative in April, 1994. Much of the New Haven Initiative focuses on issues of human development (ranging from collaborations with the public schools to programs for improving health care) and on neighborhood revitalization such as the $2.3 million HUD grant secured for the Dwight/Edgewood area. However, Yale has also steadily contributed to the City's economic well-being in the last three years through a number of bricks-and-mortar projects.

Since April 1994, Yale has offered a cash benefit to Yale employees who buy homes in New Haven. Each new participating employee now receives $4,000 at the closing and $2,000 a year for ten years if they continue to live in the house. To date, in the four-year Yale Homebuyer Program, 265 employees -- from all levels of faculty, management, clerical and service employee groups -- have bought homes throughout the City, representing a current cash commitment of $5.3 million by Yale. This program has encouraged over $28 million in home sales, with approximate annual property tax revenue to the City of $900,000. Since January 1996, the program has concentrated on a corridor through the center of the City including Newhallville, Dixwell, Beaver Hills, Dwight/Edgewood, and the Hill. Of the first 32 Yale employee purchases in these areas, 30 were first-time homebuyers.

In May 1996, the University contributed $500,000 to the vital effort to put the Shubert Performing Arts Center on a solid financial footing for the next five years. In addition to Yale's funds, the financial arrangement was made possible by assistance from the City, the State, the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Fleet Bank and others.

Yale has pledged $100,000 a year for four years toward the Town Green Special Services District, an organization of downtown property owners and merchants organized to provide enhanced maintenance and hospitality in the blocks around the Green. The District is primarily funded by a tax surcharge on taxable businesses within its boundaries, together with voluntary payments from such entities as the City, the University and Southern New England Telephone Company.

Yale invested $2 million in infrastructure improvements for the Broadway area, paying all of the City's required "match" for a $4.6 million Federal ISTEA transportation grant plus the cost of certain improvements not eligible for federal funds such as brick sidewalks and pedestrian lighting. The University has spent an additional $2 million for facade and interior improvements to its properties on Broadway and York Street, including fire code upgrades and handicapped access. Two of these buildings, the terra cotta storefronts at 276-286 York Street and the Rosenberg's building at the corner of Broadway and York Street, won awards from the New Haven Preservation Trust for the sensitivity of the renovation work. The recent recruitment of Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. to the district is one of many efforts to contribute to an expanded retail base for New Haven.

In conjunction with financial assistance from the City, the State (via tax credits), and Yale-New Haven Hospital, the University is making a 30-year no-interest loan of $150,000 to the Hill Development Corporation for an ambitious project to rehabilitate more than 50 housing units on a cluster of streets in the central Hill neighborhood. This loan fulfills part of a commitment made by the University in late 1994 to spend a total of $450,000 on neighborhood housing projects. Another $225,000 in Yale funds, also stemming from this commitment, will go toward housing rehabilitation as Yale's match for the Dwight/Edgewood HUD grant mentioned above.

These recent investments, loans and grants are in addition to almost $18 million invested in New Haven since the mid-1980's, including $12.5 million in the mixed-use Ninth Square Project, a $250,000 loan for the renovation of the Ivy Street School into offices and apartments, a $200,000 construction loan for the 31-unit complex known as McCabe Manor Condominiums in the Dixwell neighborhood, $1 million in equity funds for start-up businesses supported by the Connecticut Seed Venture Fund, $1.03 million to HOME, Inc. for renovation of 29 units in nine multi-family houses, and about $2.3 million toward the early costs of Science Park Development Corporation.

Taken together, these past, current and future construction and renovation projects promise to revitalize Yale's physical plant, providing a safe, enduring and modern home for the University's diverse students, faculty and programs. With its indispensable contribution toward this as well as other important goals, the greatest accomplishment of the Yale Campaign will be its impact on the future. Against the threat of economic uncertainty in the years ahead, alumni and friends of Yale have built a bulwark that will safeguard the University and its mission well into its fourth century.

The Yale community owes a debt of thanks to the 99,250 individual donors who made gifts or pledges toward the $1.702 billion Campaign total, as well as the many corporations, foundations and other organizations that stepped forward so generously to help secure Yale's future. The University also thanks the 2,200 volunteers who dedicated their leadership, time and talent to the task of cultivating and soliciting gifts. Finally, the Campaign organizers appreciate the able assistance received from scores of faculty and staff from across the University.