Well, it took 10 years of rain or shine fieldwork to take the cover off my favorite #wildflower guide โฆ but now itโs again good as new.

Well, it took 10 years of rain or shine fieldwork to take the cover off my favorite #wildflower guide โฆ but now itโs again good as new.
๐ฟ Our #BSASpotlight continues with Sreya Das, Postdoctoral Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan!
Sreya studies plant immune signaling using genetics, cell biology, and genomics to help improve crop resilience.
Learn more: botany.org/home/careers...
Field Botany course prep in the rain with Budha and Zen at Mohn Mill Natural Areaโฆ. Where the vernal pools are atypically full for September.
๐ฟ That's a wrap on our 2026 BSA Awards Blitz! This year we gave out nearly 170 awards totaling over $150,000, recognizing botanists at every career stage. Thank you to everyone who applied, nominated, organized, and judged.
๐ Congratulations!!! ๐
๐ฟ Congratulations to our 2026 Sino-American Conference Travel Award recipients!
BSA is proud to support these members with travel awards as they attend the 2026 Sino-American Conference on New Horizons in Plant Science, happening now.
๐ฟ Congratulations to Sarah K. Morris (University of Vermont), recipient of the 2026 Edgar T. Wherry Award from the BSA Pteridological Section, for her research presented at Botany 2026! ๐
๐ฟ Congratulations to our 2026 Physiological & Ecophysiological Section student award recipients!
Li-COR Prize: Eli Hartung (Texas State) & Mujibur Rahman Khan (Oklahoma State) ๐
Section: Rob James King (NC State) & James Roth (Black Hills State) ๐
๐ฟ Congratulations to two 2026 BSA sectional award recipients!
Margaret Menzel Award (Genetics & Genomics): Keyi Feng (University of Michigan) ๐
Maynard Moseley Award (Dev. & Structural / Paleobotanical): Araya Andersen (Oregon State University) ๐
๐ฟ Congratulations to our 2026 Katherine Esau Award recipients, Angelique Acevedo (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Andrea Appleton (Harvard University), for their outstanding presentations in developmental & structural botany at Botany 2026!
๐ฟ Congratulations to our 2026 Ecological Section student award recipients!
๐ Graduate Presentation: Julianna Harden (Cornell)
๐ Graduate Poster: Julia Freeman (Univ. of Illinois)
๐ Undergraduate Presentation: Oscar Peterson (Missouri State)
๐ฟ Congratulations to our 2026 Developmental & Structural Section Best Poster Award recipients: Liz Mays (University of Kansas) and Sophie Radigue (UC Santa Barbara)! ๐
Well done to you both on your outstanding posters!
๐ฟ Congratulations to Nick Biel (Colorado State Univ.), recipient of the 2026 Emanuel D. Rudolph Award for his presentation "A Label, a Logbook, and a Language Model: Reconstructing 200 Years of Specimen Provenance at the CSU Herbarium"! ๐
๐ฟ Congratulations to two award recipients from our Paleobotanical Section!
Michael Cichan Research Grant: Xiaoqing Zhang (Field Museum, Chicago)
Isabel Cookson Award: Morgan Mathison (Univ. of Kansas)
Two wonderful contributions to paleobotany! ๐
๐ฟ Congratulations to Ainun Nadhifah (UT Knoxville), recipient of the 2026 A. J. Sharp Award for the best student presentation in the Bryological & Lichenological sessions at Botany 2026! Honorable Mention: Katelyn Ouzts (Weber State University). ๐
๐ฟ Congratulations to our 2026 Southeastern Section Student Presentation Award recipients, presented at the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting! ๐
Best Presentation: Erin Burney
Best Poster: Taylor Long
๐ฟ Congratulations to our 2026 Student and PostDoc Travel Award recipients! ๐
These awards helped students and postdocs attend Botany 2026 in Tucson, Arizona, and share their work through talks and posters at the conference.
๐ฟ 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.
๐ฟ 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.
๐ฟ Congratulations to our 2026 PLANTS Grant recipients! ๐
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.