From Plant Press, Vol. 13, No. 4 from October 2010.
Martin R. Kalfatovic (Smithsonian Institution Libraries) and Laurence Dorr received support from the Atherton Seidell Grant Program to prepare an on-line version of Taxonomic Literature, ed. 2, and its supplements that will be incorporated into the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), the digitization component of the Encyclopedia of Life.
Vicki Funk, as lead editor of the book Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae, received the Stebbins Medal for 2007-2009 from the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT). The medal is given for “an outstanding article or book on plant systematics and/or plant evolution.” Funk received the award at the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) banquet at the Botany 2010 meeting in Providence, Rhode Island.
Vicki Funk received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Murray State University, Murray Kentucky. Funk received her B.S. (1969) and M.S. (1975) from Murray State University; after her Masters she went on to Ohio State University for her Ph.D. and the New York Botanical Garden for a postdoctoral fellowship. On October 8, 2010, as part of the award activities, Funk presented a departmental seminar on some of her research and in the evening she gave a short after dinner talk about her experiences.
Mark Littler received the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award from Ohio University’s College of Arts and Sciences. The award ceremony took place 24 September 2010. Preceding the ceremony, Littler mentored and advised students in the Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences.
The American Society of Plant Taxonomists awarded Harold E. Robinson, a prolific expert on the sunflower family, their Asa Gray Award for outstanding career achievements at the society’s annual meeting in August. Robinson is hailed by his peers as a leader in research productivity, with his publication of 900 papers and over 600 new species names in his 54-year career.
Alain Touwaide has been elected Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine of the UK in July 2010, and Emanuela Appetiti has been appointed on the Advisory Board of the World History of Science On-line (WHSO).
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