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The December 2011 ASPT Newsletter is now available.
SYSTEMATIC BOTANY MONOGRAPHS: New Volume
Volume 94. Monograph of Trichanthecium (Poaceae, Paniceae), Fernando O. Zuloaga, Osvaldo Morrone, and M. Amalia Scataglini, 101 pp, color frontispiece, December 2011. ISBN 978-0-912861-94-4. US orders: $15.00; non-US orders: $23.00.
Postage and handling included. Send orders to Systematic Botany Monographs, University of Michigan Herbarium, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2228, USA, with checks payable to ASPT; VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover accepted. Fax: 734-998-0038; e-mail chra@umich.edu
The California Desert Research Fund supports graduate student research that contributes to the understanding and conservation of desert parks, wildernesses, and other ecologically significant open spaces in the California Desert in San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo, and Imperial Counties. See the guidelines and application form.
13th Young Systematists' Forum
Congratuations to the 2011 George R. Cooley Award winner Erin A. Tripp (Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden), for her presentation "Physacanthus (Acanthaceae): a heteroplasmic, intergeneric, interlineage hybrid?" with co-authors Lucinda McDade, Fatimah Siti, and Iain Darbyshire. See the press release here.
See the ASPT Press Releases from Botany 2011 and congratulations to the 2011 Asa Gray Awardee Walter S. Judd (University of Florida) and 2011 Raven Awardee
Robbin C. Moran (The New York Botanical Garden).
The 2011 Graduate Student Research Awards have been announced!
The Catalina Island Conservancy Herbarium (CATA) - call for institutional exchanges
The ASPT Membership Committee is happy to announce that the popular student travel grant lottery from last year will be continued this year. The ASPT Council approved the same number of travel grants, so that we will be awarding 33 travel grants for $300 each. Details here!
SYSTEMATIC BOTANY MONOGRAPHS: New Volumes
Volume 91. Monograph of Berlinia (Leguminosae), Barbara A. Mackinder and R. Toby Pennington, 117 pp, 2011. ISBN 978-0-912861-91-3. US orders: $18.00; non-US orders: $26.00.
Volume 92. Monograph of Dendropemon (Loranthaceae), Job Kuijt, 110 pp, color frontispiece, 2011. ISBN 978-0-912861-92-0. US orders: $17.00; non-US orders: $25.00.
Postage and handling included. Send orders to Systematic Botany Monographs, University of Michigan Herbarium, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2228, USA, with checks payable to ASPT; VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover accepted. Fax: 734-998-0038; e-mail chra@umich.edu
2011 Research Grants for Graduate Students Deadline 9 March 2011. Guidelines are here.
IBC 2011 Student & Early Career Travel Grants Graduate students, postdocs, and Faculty within the first three years of their first faculty appointment are eligible for travel awards to attend the International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, Australia, July 23-30, 2011. You must be speaking in a symposium or have submitted an abstract for a poster to be eligible. For more information and to apply go here: http://www.botany.org/2011-IBC/
ASPT is pleased to announce the election of Professor Hong De-Yuan of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science to Corresponding Member of ASPT.
University of Illinois Herbaria are moving
The three herbaria at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, CEL, ILL, and ILLS, will be moving from their current three locations to a new facility currently nearing completion. This will disrupt normal herbarium business for at least six months, though parts of the collection will be accessible at times.
Please hold shipments and contact us before scheduling any visits between January 2011 and June 2011. Also, please submit any loan requests before December 15, 2010.
The new facility will bring the collections together in one location, provide much better storage for specimens, and offer better work space for staff and visitors. We look forward to being better able to serve the botanical and mycological communities and appreciate your patience in the interim.