As a society, we are standing with The Duke Herbarium and request that Duke University reconsider the decision to divest their herbarium. We ask that you also consider adding your support by signing this petition (https://www.change.org/p/urge-duke-university-to-reconsider-closing-their-herbarium) organized by AIBS, iDigBio, NSCA, and SPNHC with the support of ASPT, ABLS, BSA, and SHC.
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.
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
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).
Have you heard about the "Botany Bill"? Formally known as “The Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration and Promotion Act," HR 1054 was introduced to the United States House of Representatives in February 2017
The Botanical Society of America Systematics Section and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists are providing financial support for students to participate in field trips at Botany 2017. We will provide up to $100 to 40 student members from either society
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:
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
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!
http://news.wisc.edu/hugh-iltis-uws-battling-botanist-dies-at-91/
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