Dear BSA Student Members,

Would you like a chance to get involved and trained in K-12 outreach? Would you like to help stimulate an appreciation of science and plant biology in tomorrow's scientists, without ever leaving your desk? Would you like to get next year's BSA membership for free?

The BSA is supporting incentives for 10 individuals to serve on the Master Plant Science Team of PlantingScience (www.PlantingScience.org), an on-line inquiry-based student mentoring program. We particularly seek graduate students. The overall time commitment is small, but the impact you make can be substantial. Please see www.plantingscience.org to learn about the PlantingScience program, and see the Scientist page to learn about serving as a mentor. We invite you to apply. An application form with additional details about BSA's incentives is available on the Scientist page and at www.botany.org/Scientific_Inquiry/SipResources/Scientist/BSA_MPSTappl.pdf.

Please direct questions and applications to Claire Hemingway (chemingway@botany.org). We'd like to have candidates identified by September 1, 2007.

Current BSA membership is not required--please pass this along to other interested graduate students.

Thanks!

Claire Hemingway, Ph.D.
Education Director
Botanical Society of America www.botany.org
PlantingScience www.PlantingScience.org

chemingway@botany.org

Mission: The Botanical Society of America exists to promote botany, the field of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions within the biosphere.