Fall 2026 Martine Lab, heading into Fall Break.

Fall 2026 Martine Lab, heading into Fall Break.
Field Botany and the Botany Bus after a chilly but sunny morning in Montandon Marsh.
Annual re-creation of the 1912 Bucknell botany class photo at the βGundyβs Farmβ cliff site, where our students have been visiting the same Heuchera population for at least 120 years.
πΏ 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...
We just got back from our 14th yearβs field trip partnering with Virginiaβs DCR, sampling Phragmites at their natural area preserves! Love the opportunity to continue this CURE. πͺπΌ#PUI #plantpeopleFTW
Awesome day wading in Buffalo Creek with Field Botany. Cold feet (and legs.. and one whole body oops), warm smiles, and cool aquatic plants.
Little bit rainy this morning for our collecting foray to the Forrest D. Brown Conference Center in Cowan, but this intrepid crew gathered #herbarium specimens for more than 90 species in just 2.5 hours. Thatβs some real #plantpeopleFTW stuff right there.
πΏ 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.
π Congratulations!!! π
πΏ 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.
πΏ 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! π
πΏ Congratulations to our 2026 Physiological & Ecophysiological Section student award recipients!
Li-COR Prize: Eli Hartung (Texas State) & Mujibur Rahman Khan (Oklahoma State) π
Section: Rob James King (NC State) & James Roth (Black Hills State) π
πΏ Congratulations to two 2026 BSA sectional award recipients!
Margaret Menzel Award (Genetics & Genomics): Keyi Feng (University of Michigan) π
Maynard Moseley Award (Dev. & Structural / Paleobotanical): Araya Andersen (Oregon State University) π
πΏ 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!
πΏ Congratulations to our 2026 Ecological Section student award recipients!
π Graduate Presentation: Julianna Harden (Cornell)
π Graduate Poster: Julia Freeman (Univ. of Illinois)
π Undergraduate Presentation: Oscar Peterson (Missouri State)
πΏ Congratulations to our 2026 Developmental & Structural Section Best Poster Award recipients: Liz Mays (University of Kansas) and Sophie Radigue (UC Santa Barbara)! π
Well done to you both on your outstanding posters!
πΏ 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"! π
πΏ 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! π
πΏ 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). π
πΏ Congratulations to our 2026 Southeastern Section Student Presentation Award recipients, presented at the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting! π
Best Presentation: Erin Burney
Best Poster: Taylor Long