Botanical Society Undergraduate Student Research Awards
Purpose and Eligibility
This award is designed to promote undergraduate student research
in the botanical sciences in conjunction with our efforts to highlight
the plant sciences as a study and/or career option. We see this
as a simple and effective way of promoting your research, your
lab, your university and your passion for the botanical sciences.
It is meant to be a fun and informative activity.
To be eligible, one must be a student member of the Botanical
Society of America (BSA), a registered undergraduate student,
have a faculty research advisor who is also a member of the BSA,
and not have won the award previously. Please note:
Award Recipients will be eligible to participate in the BSA Graduate
Student Research Award program as a Graduate Student.
2012 BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards
The BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards support undergarduate
student research and are made on the basis of research proposals
and letters of recommendation. The 2011 award recipients are:
Jenna Annis, Eastern Illinois University, - Advisor, Dr. Janice M. Coons, Evaluating Seed Ecology of Federally Threatened Pinguicula ionantha (Godfrey’s butterwort)
Ian A. Harkreader, Drake University, - Advisor, Dr. Nanci Ross, Pollination Biology and Habitat Preference of a rare native lily, Lilium michiganense
Hillary Karbowski, Central Michigan University, - Advisor, Dr. Anna K. Monfils, Local abiotic factors and plant assemblages: An investigation into prairie fen biodiversity
Caprice Lee, University of California, Davis, - Advisor, Dr. Sharman Diane O’Neill, Novel embryological study of Vanilla planifolia using confocal scanning laser microscopy
Tess Nugent, University of Michigan, - Advisor, Dr. Selena Y. Smith, Investigating potential causes for variation in δ13C discrimination in Ginkgo biloba
Jennifer O’Brien, Eastern Illinois University, - Advisor, Dr. Janice M. Coons, Enhancing Seed Germination and Determining the Seed Bank of the Federally Threatened Scutellaria floridana
Bryan Thompson, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, - Advisor, Dr. Chris Martine, Hydroponic Technology: The Future of Farming and its Ecological Benefits - Growth rate response and productivity of Ocimum basilicum and super beefsteak tomato within a soilless environment compared to a soil environment
2011 BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards
The BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards support undergarduate
student research and are made on the basis of research proposals
and letters of recommendation. The 2011 award recipients are:
Keri L Caudle, Fort Hays State University, - Advisor, Dr. Brian R. Maricle
Jennifer Collins, SUNY Plattsburgh, - Advisor, Dr. Christopher T. Martine
Jacqueline Rice, University of Florida, - Advisor, Dr. Pamela Soltis
Eric Taber, Colgate University, - Advisor, Dr. Eddie Watkins
Megan Ward, SUNY Plattsburgh, - Advisor, Dr. Christopher T. Martine
2010 BSA Undergraduate Student Research Award Recipients
The BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards support undergarduate
student research and are made on the basis of research proposals
and letters of recommendation. The 2010 award recipients are:
Amanda Bieber, Old Dominion University, Norfolk,
VA, - Advisor, Dr. Lytton Musselman, Molecular
identification of potentially invasive Cuscuta in Brunei
Darussalam
Sasha Dow-Kitson, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh,
NY, - Advisor, Dr. Chris Martine, Reproductive
biology of Hydrocharis morsus-ranae in Lake Champlain,
a likely source population for the next region-wide aquatic plant
invasion
Elizabeth Lavoie, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh,
NY, - Advisor, Dr. Chris Martine, A
new species of wild eggplant, with implications for the evolution
of a rare breeding system
Heather Meyer, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville,
NY - Advisor, Dr. Kenneth Karol, A phylogenetic
and morphological analysis on the current taxonomic scheme of
Nitella flexilis L.
Alexander R. Scharf, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh,
NY, - Advisor, Dr. Chris Martine, Chromosome
number in Solanum sejunctum: The potential role of polyploidy
in the origin of an Australian dioecious species
Paige Swanson, University of Colorado, Boulder,
CO, - Advisor, Dr. Pam Diggle, The Role
of Branching Control Genes in Mimulus guttatus
Wes Testo, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY,
- Advisor, Dr. James E. Watkins, Jr., Desiccation
tolerance and calcium requirements of gametophytes of American
Hart’s-Tongue Fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium var.
americana
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