The Torrey Botanical Society supports an annual symposium award of $1,000.
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 by in early spring.
Organizers should send the following information:
1) a description of the symposium and its importance,
2) a list of the speakers and their topics, and
3) current C.V.s of the organizers.
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(s) to the Chair of the Grants and Awards Committee at grants@torreybotanical.org.
Recipients of symposium awards should consider publishing results of the symposium in the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.
Please send all materials and inquiries to grants@torreybotanical.org .
Previous awardees:
2024
Rafaela Trad, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. “Recent advances in the megadiverse legume subfamily Papilionoideae – Parts I and II”
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
no award given
2019
Zack E. Murrell and Michael W. Denslow, Appalachian State University. “Celebrating 15 years of SERNEC: Where we’ve been, where we are, & where we are going.” Botany 2019 in Tucson, Arizona
2018
Dr. Ghillean Prance, and Dr. Cynthia Sothers ,The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. “The big trees of the Neotropics: Evolution and diversity in the Chrysobalanaceae” XII Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica in Quito, Ecuador.
2017, 2016, 2015
no award given
2014
Dr. Jordan Sinclair of Hokkaido University. “On models and methods pertaining to plant reproduction” Botany 2014 in Boise, Idaho.
2013
Dr. Allison Miller of St. Louis University and Dr. Toby Kellogg of University of Missouri-St. Louis. “Speaking of food: connecting basic and applied science” Botany 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
2012
Jordan Sinclair of Wayne State University and Rupesh Kariyat of Pennsylvania State University. “Ecological interactions affecting the evolution of plant mating systems: Current research and future directions” Botany 2012, Columbus Ohio.
2011
Dr. Ashley Egan of East Carolina University for support of a symposium entitled “Advances in plant systematics and population genomics: Applications of next generation techniques” Botany 2011 in St. Louis, Missouri.
2010, 2009, 2008
no award given
2007
Dr. Susan Pell of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Dr. Allison Miller of St. Louis University. “Evolution and diversification in the Sapindales” Botany 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.
2006
Dr. David Lentz, University of Cincinnati. “Medicinal plants of Southeast Asia: contributions and potential contributions to medicine” held at the Society of Economic Botany meeting in Chaing Mai, Thailand.
2005
Nava M. Tabak. “The New England invasive plant summit” held in Farmington, MA.
2004
Valerie Imbruce, Angela Steward, and Christine Padoch. “Migration, Markets, and Changing Systems of Plant Use.” the Society of Economic Botany meeting, Canterbury, England
2003
no award given
2002
Dr. Timothy Motley, Mr. Hugh Cross, and Ms. Nyree Zerega (Institute of Systematic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden). “Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crop Plants: A Molecular Approach” held at the Society of Economic Botany in Bronx, NY.
2001
Steven Clemants (Brooklyn Botanic Garden) and Nicola Ripley (Betty Ford Alpine Garden, Vail, Colorado). Asheville Plus 1. How have you implemented the international agenda for botanical gardens in conservation at your Garden? held at the American Association of Botanic Gardens and Arboreta Conference in Denver, CO.
2000
no award given
1999
Thomas Borsch (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) Stephen Clemants (Brooklyn Botanic Garden), and Sergei Mosyakin (M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, Kiev, Ukraine). Biology of the Amaranthaceae-Chenopodiaceae-alliance, held at the 16th International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, MO.