ANNOUNCEMENTS

Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany

Proposals must be received by January 31

The Garden Club of America’s Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany provides at least one grant award of $4,500 annually to support research related to medicinal plants. An important aspect of the award is that it is intended to enable a student to pursue an avenue of research that might otherwise prove closed. Accordingly, the funds may be used to cover direct costs associated with travel, field studies, or laboratory research. However, fellowship funds may not cover indirect costs, overhead, or student stipends and should not be used to pay for lab space or supplies normally provided by universities.

 

Eligible candidates include students in any field of specialty who are currently enrolled in PhD programs at recognized universities and recent graduates who have received their degrees in the last five years. The fellowship is administered by the Missouri Botanical Garden. Fellowship recipients will be selected by a panel of botanists with expertise in economic botany or ethnobotany, subject to approval by the Garden Club of America Scholarship Committee.

Please submit the following:

  • a brief application letter
  • an abstract of 200 words or less
  • a one- to two-page research proposal, set in 12 pt type, giving the project’s background and purpose and describing activities to be conducted (proposals will be treated as confidential; proposals longer than two pages will be considered ineligible)
  • a one-page budget that explains how funds would be used
  • a current curriculum vitae
  • for graduate students, a letter from a major advisor certifying enrollment in a PhD program
  • copies of permits for field work or studies including animals, research clearances, and permission from governmental agencies for foreign research (if permits are being applied for but have not yet been obtained, please ensure that the proposal explains the situation)

Proposals must be received by January 31.

Mail applications to:

Dr. Wendy Applequist
Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
Saint Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA

Additional information may be obtained by contacting Dr. Applequist at the address above or by email at wendy.applequist@mobot.org

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Hugh H. Iltis

Noted botanist, conservation activist, and ASPT member and 1994 Asa Gray awardee Hugh H. Iltis died on December 19th. Below is a link to the University of Wisconsin-Madison news release, an obituary, and commentary in the Capital Times.  A pdf of the Asa Gray Award tribute by Jacquelyn Kallunki is also included below.  Thanks to Ken Cameron for sharing the links and the news. Hugh will be missed!

Asa Gray Tribute

http://news.wisc.edu/hugh-iltis-uws-battling-botanist-dies-at-91/

http://host.madison.com/news/local/obituaries/iltis-hugh-h-ph-d/article_395c6d73-acb5-5c49-9209-28dad4fff6be.html

Commentary in the Capital Times

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Tropical Botany course 2017

Below is a course announcement for the Tropical Botany course, an intensive field course in tropical plant systematics, an F.I.U. course that is taught in collaboration with the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Kampong Garden, and Montgomery Botanical Center, in Miami, Florida.  (dates for this summer’s course, May 21-June 18, 2017)

See the course announcement for details

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Daniel Bertram Ward

Daniel B. Ward, Florida Botanist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and ASPT member for 56 years, died in July of this year.  His immense botanical knowledge is evident in his many writings and contributions to our knowledge of the plants of the southeastern US, especially Florida. Here we post a link to his obituary as it appeared in the Gainesville Sun.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gainesville/obituary.aspx?pid=180846639

 

(4 November 2016)

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