ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Nominations for 2018 ASPT Awards

Nominations for the ASPT's Society Awards for 2018 (Asa Gray Award, Peter Raven Award, Undergraduate Research Prize, and the renamed Engagement and Excellence in Plant Systematics Education Award) are being accepted through February 28th.  

Permalink: https://www.aspt.net/news-blog/2017/11/28/accepting-nominations-for-society-awards-deadline-15-jan-2018

Joint BSA/ASPT award funds sustainability workshop in the Dominican Republic

The 2017 Botany Advocacy Leadership Award provided funds for awardee Jackeline Salazar to hold a sustainability workshop for women on August 31st, 2017, in Oviedo, Perdenales, Dominican Republic. The workshop was entitled "Plant Conservation and Sustainable Management by women in the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve, Dominican Republic: Community Workshop and Local Capacity” and was a great success!  

Permalink: https://www.aspt.net/news-blog/2017/9/12/award-funds-sustainability-workshop-in-dominican-republic

Orchid Research funding opportunity

From Ken Cameron (kmcameron@wisc.edu):

I would like to draw to your attention to the renewed funding source for orchid research by the American Orchid Society. The submission guidelines have been posted on the web:
http://www.aos.org/about-us/orchid-research/application-guidelines.aspx

Permalink: https://www.aspt.net/news-blog/2017/8/24/orchid-research-funding-opportunity

ASPT presidents' letter addresses elimination of NSF DDIG

On June 9th,  ASPT presidents present and past cosigned a letter addressing NSF's June 6 announcement of the elimination of the NSF doctoral dissertation improvement grants program in the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) and the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS). 

Permalink: https://www.aspt.net/news-blog/2017/6/16/aspt-presidents-letter-address-elimination-of-nsf-ddig