🌿 Congratulations to our 2026 Student and PostDoc Travel Award recipients! 🎉
These awards helped students and postdocs attend Botany 2026 in Tucson, Arizona, and share their work through talks and posters at the conference.

🌿 Congratulations to our 2026 Student and PostDoc Travel Award recipients! 🎉
These awards helped students and postdocs attend Botany 2026 in Tucson, Arizona, and share their work through talks and posters at the conference.
🌿 Congratulations to our 2026 Developing Nations Travel Award recipients!
These awards helped botanists travel to Botany 2026 in Tucson, AZ, fostering international collaboration and strengthening connections across our global botanical community.
To celebrate #PeerReviewWeek, #AppsPlantSci Editor-in-Chief Dr. Briana Gross highlights how APPS's Reviewing Editor program brings the next generation of researchers into peer review and strengthens our reviewer community.
Watch the interview here: lnkd.in/p/ghsU49xq
🌿 Congratulations to our 2026 Professional Travel Award recipients!
These awards helped postdocs, faculty, and professionals join the global botanical community at Botany 2026 in Tucson, Arizona.
🌿 Congratulations to our 2026 PLANTS Grant recipients! 🎉
The PLANTS Grant brought a cohort of 12 undergraduates to Botany 2026 in Tucson, with mentors guiding them through their first conference and welcoming them into the botanical community.
🌼 The 2nd season of the BSA's podcast—A Botanical Podcast!—is now available! 🌼
In this episode, BSA President Chris Martine discusses his love of plants & the people who study them—and much more!
www.buzzsprout.com/2446995/epis...
#botany #plantscience #PlantPeopleFTW
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🌿 Congratulations to our 2026 Young Botanist Award recipients! 🎉
This award recognizes outstanding graduating seniors in the botanical sciences. Bravo to these outstanding students, and a warm thanks to their advisors who championed them! 👏
🌿 Congratulations to our 2026 Undergraduate Student Research Award recipients: Sereen Elkhalid, Jesenia Garcia, Mose Langway, Richey Nguyen, Rebecca Ryvola-Marez, and Annabelle S. Wang! 🎉
Celebrating the next generation of botanists!
🌿 Help us celebrate our 2026 Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Award recipients, plus our AJ Harris winner Miles Buddy (Univ. of Florida) and J.S. Karling winner Isabeau Lewis (Queen's University)! 🎉
Full list at www.botany.org (click "Awards")
🌿 Congratulations to Paulo Henrique Gaem (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), recipient of the 2026 Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology! Honorable Mention goes to Caroline Brose (Univ. of Wyoming). 🎉
🌿 Congratulations to the 2026 Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology recipients, Austin T. Nguyen (Univ. of Kansas) & Madison Plunkert (Michigan State)! The award supports PhD research advancing comparative plant morphology.
🌿 Congratulations to L. Alejandro Giraldo (Penn State), recipient of the 2026 Remy, Remy, and Winslow Award from the BSA Paleobotanical Section, for the best published paper in paleobotany or palynology! 🎉
Learn more: www.botany.org (click Awards)
🌿 Congratulations to Chloe Novak (California Botanic Garden), recipient of the 2026 Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant, for her proposal "The Sodapalooza Project: a collaborative rare plant conservation initiative"! 🎉
🌿 Congratulations to the 2026 BSA Public Policy Award recipients, Anthony J. Dant (Univ. of Arizona) and Preston J. Jarman (Old Dominion Univ.)! This award sends two early-career botanists to DC to advocate for the botanical sciences.
🌿 Congratulations to Prof. Nishi Rajakaruna (Cal Poly SLO), recipient of the 2026 Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award! In 22 years he's taught 3,500+ students and built a community of plant enthusiasts that keeps growing.
🌿 Congratulations to Dr. Mihai Tomescu (Cal Poly Humboldt), recipient of the 2026 Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture Award! He delivered his lecture, "Dead plants do tell tales," at Botany 2026 in Tucson.
Learn more at www.botany.org (click Awards).
🌿 Congratulations to the 2026 BSA Impact Award recipients, the Disabled in Botany Affinity and Action Group: Haley Branch, Caroline Brose, and Bryan MacNeill!
We're grateful for their leadership in building a more inclusive Society. 👏
🌿 Congratulations to our 2026 BSA Corresponding Members, Dr. Hongzhi Kong (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) & Dr. Thomas R. Meagher (University of St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K.)! 👏
Learn more at www.botany.org (click Awards).
🌿 Congratulations to Dr. Jenn Coughlan (Yale University), recipient of the 2026 BSA Emerging Leader Award! We're honored to recognize them as a rising star in our community. 👏
Learn more at www.botany.org (click Awards).
🌿 Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Leslie (Stanford University), the first-ever recipient of the BSA Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award! His work spans paleobotany, phylogenetics, & structural botany.
Learn more at www.botany.org (click Awards).