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Dec 7, 2018

Herbarium Fellows Engage Plant Awareness Through Wreath Making!

Our two new Herbarium Fellows, Lillian Fulgham C'21 and Angus Pritchard C'22, hosted a wreath making party in the Herbarium on Reading...

Nov 15, 2018

New Herbarium Fellows Announced

This fall, the Sewanee Herbarium launched its Undergraduate Fellows program funded by an endowment established in memory of Ashley Block...

Nov 10, 2018

Field Sampling Completed for Hill Cane Project

Lilllian Fulgham C'21, Angus Pritchard C'22 and George Burruss C'22 assisted with the final field season of the hill cane demography...

Oct 15, 2018

Sarah Neumann and Students Join Research at Sinking Pond

Dr. Sarah McCarthy Neumann (C'99) returned to Sinking Pond this week with three of her students from Alma College to collaborate with us...

Sep 19, 2018

Today is World Bamboo Day!

In our lab, we study populations of hill cane (Arundinaria appalachiana), a species of bamboo endemic to the Southern Appalachian...

Sep 5, 2018

Bamboo Research Presented at Clonal Plant Conference

This summer, I attended the 12th Clonal Plant Symposium that was held in Brunswick ME on the Bowdoin Campus (July 29-Aug. 2). This...

Aug 15, 2018

WSJ Article: America Needs More Botanists!

"The U.S. is running short of people who can tell the forest from the trees." Recent article in the Wall Street Journal chronicles...

Jul 25, 2018

Shelby wraps up OSGF Fellowship

In the latest issue of the Plant Press, Shelby reviews her work as a Herbarium Fellow this past year. Shelby was funded by a grant from...

May 1, 2018

Students Present Sapelo Island Research

Students in my Coastal Ecology course presented preliminary results from the dune succession research project that we initiated on Sapelo...

Apr 3, 2018

Callie Oldfield Awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship!

Callie Oldfield, lab graduate fellow and current PhD student in Botany Dept at the University of Georgia has been awarded a NSF Graduate...

Mar 31, 2018

Shelby Meckstroth Presents Paper on Hydrocotyle Research at ASB Mtg

Shelby Meckstroth presented our paper: "The amelioration of grazing and burial through physiological integration by a clonal dune plant"...

Mar 20, 2018

Botanical Notes from Dr Evans’ Coastal Ecology Program on Sapelo Island

This Spring Break, we trekked to Sapelo Island, Georgia with Dr. Evans for an intensive, week long course entitled Coastal Ecology and...

Feb 28, 2018

Evans To Give Seminar on Belize Deforestation at Borders Symposium

Professor Evans will talk about rainforest loss in the Chiquibul Forest region of Belize at Sewanee's Third Annual Interdisciplinary...

Jan 25, 2018

Seminar by Dr. Leighton Reid on Tropical Forest Restoration

Lab alum, Dr. Leighton Reid (C'06) was in town this week to give a Biology Department seminar on his restoration ecology work in Costa...

Dec 5, 2017

Trifolium calcaricum (Running Glade Clover) Conservation

At the Cedars of Lebanon State Park, I met Andrea Bishop, a botanist from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, and...

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