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OSH Named for Neil Harriman
The herbarium at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (OSH) was officially named in honor of its founder and Curator Emeritus, Dr. Neil A. Harriman on September 8, 2009, as part of opening-day ceremonies for the new academic year. University Chancellor Dr. Richard H. Wells presented Harriman with a framed certificate that read in part, “For over four decades, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh professor emeritus Neil Harriman has focused his attention and expertise on the establishment, development and collection of materials that will be perpetually used by students, faculty and staff as well as scientists, scholars and researchers from across the global community. This collection is recognized as one of the largest and best in the state of Wisconsin and will benefit all citizens in northeastern Wisconsin and beyond.”
The herbarium was established by Harriman at the time of his arrival on campus in 1964. By the time of his retirement in 1998, OSH had grown from a few cabinets and a handful of teaching specimens to a well curated facility housing almost 100,000 vascular plant specimens from around the globe and a botanical library of nearly 4000 volumes plus major runs of serials and a large collection of reprints.
Since retiring and accepting the title of Curator Emeritus, Harriman has continued to work in the herbarium on an almost daily basis, collecting, mounting, filing, and identifying specimens. Today, accessions total over 117,000 sheets, approximately half from outside Wisconsin. The facility continues to be used daily by his successor in meeting the teaching, research, and service missions of the university. -- Thomas G. Lammers, Curator [Posted 14 October 2009]
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Chancellor Richard H. Wells presents yellow-button mums to Professor Emeritus Neil Harriman at a dedication ceremony for the University's herbarium on Sept. 9. Dr. Harriman founded the 3,700-square-foot facility in 1964, and in honor of his service, the herbarium, located in Halsey Science Center, henceforth will be called the Neil A. Harriman Herbarium. (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh photo)
Lawrence Memorial Award – 2008 Recipient
Mr. Dylan O. Burge, a student of Professor Paul Manos at Duke University, is the recipient of the 2008 Lawrence Memorial Award. For his dissertation research, Mr. Burge has undertaken a study of the genus Ceanothus. The proceeds of the Award will help support his travel to Mexico for field work and herbarium research.
Linda Watson to Oklahoma State University
Dr. Linda Watson, former Professor and Chair of Botany at Miami
University (Oxford, Ohio), has moved to Oklahoma State University in
Stillwater to serve as Professor and Head of Botany. Her new email
address is: linda.watson10@okstate.edu, and phone number is (405)
744-5559. [Posted 3 September 2008]
Timothy Evans to Grand Valley State University
Dr. Timothy Evans has moved from his previous position at Hope College to take a faculty position at Grand Valley State University, in Allendale, Michigan. His new email address is: evanstim@gvsu.edu, and phone number is (616) 331-8704. [Posted 29 August 2008]
NOTE: Items BELOW this line were included in the August 2008 issue of the ASPT Newsletter.
Greta A. Fryxell Honored
ASPT member Dr. Greta A. Fryxell will be honored by the publication of a festschrift ("a volume of writings collected on honor of a scholar") recognizing her long record of scientific achievement in the fields of phycology and oceanography. The current issue of the European scientific journal Nova Hedwigia, Beihefte (Beiheft 133, 2008) will include articles by colleagues and former students that are dedicated to her and which recognize her many achievements both in teaching and in research <http://www.schweizerbart.de/pubs/series/nova-hedwigia-beihefte-051.html>.
Dr. Fryxell is Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Texas A&M University and also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Biological Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin. She now lives in Claremont, California, where she resides with her husband, Dr. Paul A. Fryxell.
A formal presentation of the festschrift will be made at a dinner held in her honor in Claremont on February 14, when many of her former students, who received M.S. or Ph.D. degrees under her direction, will be present, several coming from overseas. A unique feature of this festschrift is that it will include invited papers from each of her three children, Dr. Karl J. Fryxell (George Mason University), Dr. Joan E. Fryxell (California State University, San Bernardino), and Dr. Glen E. Fryxell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) in their fields of biology, geology, and chemistry, respectively. [Posted 12 February 2008]
Neil Snow to BISH
Dr. Neil Snow, former Associate Professor and Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Northern Colorado, has moved to the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. His new email is <neil.snow@bishopmuseum.org>. The Herbarium Pacificum (BISH) at the Bishop Museum houses over 600,000 collections of vascular plants, bryophytes, algae, fungi and lichens. It has nearly 11,000 type specimens and the largest collection of plants from Hawaii in the world. [Posted 31 December 2007]