Michael Cichan Award - PaleobotanicalDR. MICHAEL CICHAN is remembered as a distinguished scientist, a gentle person and a gentleman. He was a private person whose life and ambition centered around his family. He cared about people and their feelings. A man embarrassed or uneasy when he received an honor for which his friends and colleagues were also potential recipients. Presented by the Paleobotanical section, this award was named in honor of the memory and work of Michael A Cichan, who died in a plane crash in August of 1987. The Award was established to encourage work by young researchers at the interface of structural and evolutionary botany. This award is given to a young scholar for a paper published during the previous year in the fields of evolutionary and/or structural botany. 2014-2020 -No Michael Cichan Awards were awarded between 2014-2019 2013 -Anne-Laure Decombeix, French National Center for Scientific Resaerch at UMR AMAP Montpellier, for the paper titled: "The origins and early evolution of the megaphylous leaf," International Journal of Plant Sciences 171"641-661 2012 -Dr. Jean Galtier, Botanique et Bioinformatique de l'Archiectures des Plantes (AMAP) 2008 - Dr. Maria A. Gandolfo, Cornell University 2005 - Ruth A. Stockey, University of Alberta 2002 - Gar Rothwell 1999 - Karen A. Renzaglia, Southern Illinois University 1997 - Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud 1996 - Jack B. Fisher, Fairchild Tropical Garden and Frank W. Ewers, Michigan State University 1995 - Steven R. Manchester, University of Florida 1993 - Karl J. Niklas, University of Illinois 1992 - Elisabeth A. Wheeler, Harvard University 1991 - Paul Kenrick 1990 - Joanne M. Dannenhoffer, Central Michigan University
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