In August, Alain Touwaide and Emanuela Appetiti
were appointed as members of the recently established Honorary Advisory Board
of the Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
During a September board meeting of
the International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM), Touwaide was reconfirmed as a
Vice-President of ISHM.
Walter Judd, Professor of Botany at the the University of Florida at Gainesville, accepts the 2012 José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany from Laurence Dorr (Chair of the Cuatrecasas medal selection committee). (Photo by Ken Wurdack)
The Department of Botany and the
United States National Herbarium present this award to a botanist and scholar
of international stature who has contributed significantly to advancing the
field of tropical botany. The José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical
Botany is named in honor of Dr. José Cuatrecasas, a pioneering botanist and
taxonomist, who spent nearly a half-century working in the Smithsonian
Institution's Department of Botany. Dr. Cuatrecasas devoted his career to plant
exploration in tropical South America and this award serves to keep vibrant the
accomplishments and memory of this outstanding scientist.
The winner of this prestigious
award is selected by a committee made up of three botanists on the staff of the
Department in consultation with other plant scientists outside of the
Smithsonian Institution. Nominations for the Medal are accepted from all
scientists in the Botany Department. The award consists of a bronze medal
bearing an image of José Cuatrecasas on the front with the recipient’s name and
date of presentation on the back. Highlights from past presentations to the
recipients are available on the Symposium Archives at http://botany.si.edu/events/sbsarchives/.