The Torrey Botanical Society supports student training with an annual award of $1,000. Undergraduate and graduate students of plant science who are members of the Society are eligible to apply for this award. The award must be used to help pay the cost of taking courses at a biological field station.
Applications will open on October 15, 2024. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2025. Applications will be judged by a committee appointed by the Society’s Council. Recipients will be announced in early spring.
Proposals must include:
1) title page with proposal title, applicant’s name, address, and e-mail address;
2) brief description of the field course(s) to be taken (one paragraph);
3) brief discussion of the reasons for taking the course(s) (no more than three paragraphs);
4) a current C.V.; and
5) a letter from the major professor detailing the current status of the applicant and the potential benefits of the course(s) to the applicant.
The proposals should be written using Times New Roman font, 12-point, with pages having 1-inch top and bottom margins, and 1.25-inch side margins.
By the end of the calendar year of support, a report of one paragraph should be sent by the award recipient to the Chair of the Grants and Awards Committee.
Recipients of training fellowships should consider publishing results of future research in the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.
Please send all materials and inquiries to grants@torreybotanical.org.
Previous Awardees
2024
Rachel Savage, University of Arkansas, to attend a tropical botany course.
2023
Sierra Sattler, South Dakota State University, to attend an Advanced Field Botany course at the University of Wyoming.
2022
Kayleigh Dodson, University of Colorado, Boulder, to attend a Tropical Botany Course at Fairchild Botanic Gardens.
2021
no award given
2020
Natalia Quinteros Casaverde, CUNY Graduate Center, to attend TraitTrain Plant Functional Trait Course 5 in Peru.
2019
no award given
2018
Kendall Beals, University of Tennessee, to attend Explorations in Data Analyses for Metagenomic Advances in Microbial Ecology (EDAMAME) workshop.
Christopher Krieg, University of Florida, to attend Australian Plant Ecology
2017
Carrie Malina Tribble, University of California, Berkeley, to attend Sistematica de Plantas Tropicales, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica.
Jessie Fay Parrott, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, to attend Taxonomy and Biology of Ferns and Lycophytes, Eagle Hill Institute, Maine.
2016
No award made
2015
Sean Thackurdeen, The New York Botanical Garden, to attend Summer in the Keys: Studying Tropical Botany at the Kampong, National Tropical Botanical Garden.
2014
Ian Gilman, Bucknell University, to attend the Rocky Mountain Field Botany course at University of Idaho.
2013
Elliot Gardner, Northwestern University, to attend the Tropical Botany course in southern Florida at National Tropical Botanical Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, and Montgomery Botanical Center.
2012
Julián Aguirre-Santoro, City University of New York and The New York Botanical Garden, to attend Bodega Applied Phylogenetics Workshop at the Bodega Marine Laboratory in California.
2011
Nicolas Garcia, University of Florida, to attend the Tropical Botany course in southern Florida at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and the National Tropical Botanical Garden.
2010
Carolyn Pucko, University of Vermont, to attend The North American Dendroecological Fieldweek at the White Mountains Research Station in California.
2004
Michael Sundue, the City University of New York, to attend a course in tropical plant systematics at the Organization of Tropical Studies in Costa Rica.
Todd Osmundson, the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation of Columbia University, to attend a workshop on molecular evolution at the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
2002
Paola Pedraza, the City University of New York to attend the course Tropical Botany taught by Dr. Walter S. Judd of the University of Florida.
2001
Linda Fuselier, the University of Kentucky to attend a course in field bryology at the Highlands Biological Station.