From Plant Press, Vol. 1, No. 5, September 1998.
Lynne Cherry was recently appointed by the chairman to the position of Artist in Residence in the Department of Botany, for a period of one year to June 1999. Cherry is director of the Center for Children’s Environmental Literature (Washington, D.C.) and an accomplished illustrator and writer of 30 children’s books relating to various environmental concerns. Among her books are The Shaman’s Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest and The Great Kapok Tree.
She is working on a book on relationships between ecosystems, endangered species and values, with drawings in her vivid yet tasteful style of coloring.
Former (1990-1993) Laboratory of Molecular Systematics (LMS) Postdoctoral Fellow Youngbae Suh, now an Associate Professor with the Natural Products Research Institute at Seoul National University, is taking a sabbatical to work on basal angiosperms at the LMS from 8/15/98-1/14/99 and 8/1/99-1/4/2000.
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