Torrey Botanical Society Graduate Student Research Fellowship
The Torrey Botanical Society supports student research with three annual awards: $2,500, $1,500 and $1,000. These amounts will be awarded to the first, second, and third-place applicants, respectively, as judged by members of the selection committee. Graduate students in botany who are members of the Society are eligible to apply for an award. This award must be used to help pay the costs of field work. Applications will be judged by a committee of the Council of the Society, and recipients will be announced before 1 April each year.
Proposals must include: 1) title page with proposal title, applicant’s name, address, and e-mail address; 2) body of the proposal of no more than two pages; 3) literature cited page; 4) budget, including brief justification for each item; 5) a current C.V.; and 6) a letter from the major professor detailing the current status of the applicant and his/her qualifications. The proposals should be written using Times New Roman font, 12-point, with pages having 1-inch top and bottom margins, and 1.25-inch side margins. All applications must be sent electronically by the applicant to the Chair of the Grants and Awards Committee. Submit applications as pdf files only, with the applicant’s surname first in file name (e.g. Name_proposalResearchFellwshp.pdf, Name_letterResearchFellwshp.pdf). The deadline for applications is 15 January each year.
At the end of the calendar year of support, a non-solicited report of one paragraph should be sent by the award recipient to the Chair of the Grants and Awards Committee. Recipients of research fellowships should consider publishing results of the research in the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.
Previous awardees:
2013. Mr. Jacob Landis of University of Florida for his project Evolution of flower color and its significance in Polemoniaceae ($2500), Mr. Gregory Stull of University of Florida for his project Phylogeny, fossil record, and biogeographic history of Icacinaceae: implications for tropical plant biogeography ($1500), and Ms. Catherine Rushworth of Duke University for her project Insights into the origin and persistence of apomixis in the Boechera holboellii species complex ($1000).
2012. Ms. Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden for her project Testing adaptive radiation in the dry tropics: A phylogenetic approach to biogeography, inflorescence evolution, and hydraulic traits in the genus Varronia (Cordiaceae, Boraginales) ($2500).
2011. Ms. Carrie Kiel of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden for her project Unraveling Relationships Among the Morphologically Diverse and Taxonomically Complex New World Justicioids (Acanthaceae) ($2500), and Ms. Emily Sessa of University of Wisconsin for her project Phylogeny, Reticulate Evolution, and Recurrent Polyploid Speciation in North American Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae). ($1000)
2010. Mr. Robert Laport of University of Rochester for his project Polyploidy and Reproductive Isolation in the North American Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata, Zygophyllaceae) ($2500), Vinson Doyle of The New York Botanical Garden/City University of New York for his project Population studies of a cranberry pathogen, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Ascomycota, Sordariomycetes), in North America ($1000), and Mary Heskel of Columbia University for her project Response of Plant Respiration Physiology to Climate Change in the Arctic. ($1000)
2009. Ms. Posy Busby of Stanford University for her project Assessing Broad-Scale Patterns in Susceptibility to Beech Bark Disease ($2500) and Mr. James Lendemer of The New York Botanical Garden for his project Assessing the Biological Diversity of the Genus Lepraria s.l. (Lichenized Ascomycetes, Stereocaulaceae) in Southeastern North America. ($2500)
2008. Ms. Naomi Fraga of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden for her project Biogeography and population Genetics of the Mimulus palmeri Clade ($2500) and Mr. Jonathan Myers of Louisiana State University for his study of Ecological mechanisms maintaining plant species diversity: Seed dispersal limitation and environmental filtering in high-diversity pine savannas. ($2000)
2007. Ms. Tara Massad of Tulane University for her project Improvements in tropical reforestation through an understanding of plant secondary chemistry ($1000) and Ms. Diana Jolles of The Ohio State University for her project Phylogeny and biogeography of the Pyrola picta species complex (Pyroleae: Monotropoideae: Ericaceae). ($2,500)
