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ANNOUNCEMENT

NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUBGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD

The New England Botanical Club will offer up to $2,000 in

support of botanical research to be conducted by graduate studentsin 2015. This award is made annually to stimulate and encourage

botanical research on the New England flora, and to make possible

visits to the New England region by those who would not otherwise

be able to do so. It is anticipated that two awards will be given,

although the actual number and amount of awards will depend on

the proposals received.

The award will be given to the graduate student(s) submitting the

best research proposal dealing with systematic botany, biosystem-atics, plant ecology, or plant conservation biology. Submission of

manuscripts to the Club’s journal, Rhodora, is strongly encouraged.

Details on the materials to be submitted for consideration, as well

as terms of the award agreement, can be found on the Club’s web

page (www.rhodora.org). Proposals and supporting letters must be

received no later than March 1, 2015. The recipient(s) will be

notified by April 30, 2015.

The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announce that thewinners of the 2014 award are: (1) Eva Dannenberg of Antioch

University New England for her proposal titled, ‘‘Boreal calciphiles

in Vermont, USA: Predictive modeling and examination of rare

plant habitat distribution;’’ (2) Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie of

Boston University for her proposal titled ‘‘Spring phenology and

climate change in Acadia National Park;’’ and (3) Katherine Putney

of the University of Georgia for her proposal titled ‘‘Evaluating the

natural arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities associated withsexually dimorphic Geranium maculatum.’’

Abstracts of the winning proposals and a listing of the awards

from 1985 to the present are available on the Club’s web page.

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