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.
The BSA provides up to seven, $200 awards in this group, acknowledging the importance of an undergraduate student
research experience (including proposal/grant writing skills).
2014 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 2013 award recipients are:
Meredith R. Breeden, Fort Lewis College - Advisor, Dr. Ross A. McCauley, Pollination biology of the narrow endemic Ipomopsis ramosa, in Roaring Fork Canyon, CO
Alice Butler, Bucknell University - Advisors, Drs. Chris Martine and Ingrid Jordon-Thaden, Floral Development in Solanum sejunctum and Solanum asymmetriphyllum
Matthew Galliart, Kansas State University - Advisor, Dr. Loretta Johnson, Long-term field selection of big bluestem ecotypes in reciprocal gardens planted across the Great Plains precipitation gradient
Ian Gilman, Bucknell University - Advisors, Drs. Chris Martine and Ingrid Jordon-Thaden, Field botany and population genetics of Draba L. (Brassicaceae) in the Rocky Mountains
Morgan Roche, Bucknell University - Advisors, Drs. Chris Martine and Ingrid Jordon-Thaden, Genetic Diversity Within and Among Species of Dioecious Australian Solanum
Dylan D. Sedmak, Ohio State University - Advisor, Dr. John Freudenstein, Fungal Variability and Habitat Correspondence in the North American Orchid Cypripedium acaule Ait.
Kayla Ventura, University of Florida - Advisor, Dr. Pamela Soltis, Identifying the Cellular Component of Flower Size Differences in Gilia (Polemoniaceae) Associated with Changes in Pollinators
2013 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 2013 award recipients are:
Gemma Dugan, Bucknell University - Advisor, Dr. Chris Martine, Insect selection of dioecious Australian Solanum
Anna Freundlich, Bucknell University - Advisor, Dr. Chris Martine, Effects of Invasive Species on Riparian Communities in the Susquehanna
Alexandra Boni, Bucknell University - Advisor, Dr. Chris Martine, Genetic variation within and among populations of dioecious Solanum in Northern Australia
Margarita Hernandez, University of Florida - Advisor, Dr. Pamela S. Soltis, Phylogeny Reconstruction and Character Mapping in Leptosiphon
Caitlin Maraist, Portland State University - Advisor, Dr. Mitch Cruzan, Phenotypic plasticity in functional traits related to water use between native and invasive populations of Brachypodium sylvaticum (false brome)
Theresa Ann Barosh, Willamette University - Advisors, Dr. Susan Kephart and Kathryn Theiss, Herbivory and Pollination: Examining the relationship between galling and pollinator visitation in Camassia (Agavaceae)
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 2012 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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