BULLETINPlant Science Bulletin 56(4) 2010 WINTER 2010 VOLUME 56 NUMBER 4 News from the Society BSA Awards........................................................................................150 Good Green Teaching Colleagues.........................................................151 BSA Education News and Notes.........................................................154 In Memoriam Lawrence Joseph Crockett (1926-2010)..............................................157 Personalia Dr. Peter Raven receives the William L. Brown Award for Excellence in Genetic Resource Conservation............................................160 Friedman named Director of Arnold Arboretum....................................160 Special Opportunities New Non-Profit Directly Links Donors to Researchers......................162 Harvard University Bullard Fellowships in Forest Research...............163 MicroMorph........................................................................................163 Courses/Workshops Experience in Tropical Botany.............................................................165 Reports and Reviews Armen Takhtajan – In Appreciation of His Life. Raven, Peter H.and Tatyana Shulkina..................................................................166 Thoughts on Vernon I. Cheadle. Evert, Ray F. and Natalie W. Uhl.....171 Books Reviewed in this Issue............................................................................176 Books Received....................................................................................................183 The Botanical Society of America: for ALL Plant Biologists Botany 2011.........................................................................................................184 PLANT SCIENCE THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Leading Scientists and Educators since 1893 ISSN 0032-0919 149 Plant Science Bulletin 56(4) 2010 Editorial Manager for Plant Science Bulletin is now live. To submit manuscripts for News from the Society consideration please go to:http:// www.editorialmanager.com/psb/. We BSA Awards encourage all of the membership to register One of the most important aspects of BSA as potential manuscript reviewers by visiting membership is having the opportunity to award that site and clicking on “Update My peers and/or student members for outstanding Information.” This is especially important for efforts in support of our mission via the Society members of the Teaching, Historical, and awards program. To access the award Economic Botany sections who are under- information, please go to www.botany.org/ represented in the current AJB reviewer data awards/. base. Please take the time to use this valuable benefit We also encourage all members of the society over the next few months as we ask for to consider nominating individuals for the nominations for the 2011 awards. Promoting various society and sectional awards listed on botany and botanists is your privilege and the facing page. It is important to recognize responsibility. botanical colleagues for the fine work they do and especially to support younger botanists in Awards Open through March 15, 2011 the early stages of their careers. If you search -Merit Award previous issues of PSB (it is searchable on the BSA web site) for previous award winners, you -Charles E. Bessey Teaching Award will notice that certain schools and certain nominators are consistently recognized. It -Grady L. Webster Structural Botany may be that we have only a few star programs, Publication Award but it is more likely that this pattern results from a relatively few individuals committed to -John S. Karling and the BSA Graduate Student promoting botany at their institutions. Become Research Awards one of the few! Botany needs you! -Undergraduate Student Research Awards In this issue we recognize two eminent botanists who were leaders in the field, the -Genetics Section Graduate Student systematist Armen Takhtajan and the Research Awards anatomist Vernon Cheadle. In both cases the authors go beyond the botany to provide -Young Botanist Awards interesting perspectives of the life situation and personal character of these inspiring Awards Open through April 1, 2011 botanists. Read and enjoy. -Jeanette Siron Pelton Award in Experimental -the Editor Plant Morphology PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN ISSN 0032-0919 Published quarterly by Botanical Society of America, Inc., 4475 Castleman Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299. The yearly subscription rate of $15 is included in the membership dues of the Botanical Society of America, Inc. Periodical postage paid at St. Louis, MO and additional mailing office. Address Editorial Matters (only) to: POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Marshall D. Sundberg, Editor Botanical Society of America Dept. Biol. Sci., Emporia State Univ. Business Office 1200 Commercial St. P.O. Box 299 Emporia, KS 66801-5057 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 Phone 620-341-5605 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 150 Plant Science Bulletin 56(4) 2010 -Darbaker Prize in Phycology Good Green Teaching Student Travel Awards for Botany & Colleagues Economic Botany 2011, Open through April 10, 2011 The 2009 BSA Education Summit report, -Vernon I. Cheadle STA available at: http://www.botany.org/bsa/membership/ -Triarch “Botanical Images” STA council2010/DAL-Education.pdf Section Student Travel Awards The Education Summit was conceived as a -Pteridological Section & American way to gain better perspectives on the various Fern Society education activities in the BSA and to parse the -Developmental & Structural Section BSA education objectives into the best hands -Ecological Section to ensure that progress is made. Based on the -Genetics Section Strategic Plan that is guiding the future of the -Mycological Section BSA, we focused on what we can and should -Phycological Section do to meet the goals that have been established. -Phytochemical Section We also discussed the roles of the different education-oriented entities in the BSA and developed action plans to achieve the goals BSA Corresponding Members Outside of the that we established. Below, these action plans award program, the Botanical Society is active are developed as recommendations. in honoring Botanists where ever possible. The most prestigious form this takes is when The strategic plan emphasizes that the BSA a member like you nominates an overseas should seek to provide botany resources for colleague as a BSA Corresponding Member. teachers. We concurred and discussed the For many years this honor was limited to 50 best ways to meet this plant information people but in 2006, the Society removed this expectation. To meet the goal of locating and limit to make it more available to deserving engaging BSA experts who can contribute facts international botanists. Corresponding and information about plants, we noted that the membership in the BSA is an internationally plans for the new Membership Directory will recognized honor, and is particularly important include opportunities to collect and display today with the ease in building relationships such information about members. The in a virtual world. Please take the time to Directory will be searchable for membership consider nominating your international expertise. colleagues for the important distinction of being a BSA Corresponding Member. For details To gather information about experts who will see:www.botany.org/about_bsa/ identify gaps in existing instructional materials, corresponding_members.php we recommend developing a new box on the PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN Nina L. Baghai-Riding (2010) Editorial Committee for Volume 56 Root Gorelick (2012) Division of Biological and Jenny Archibald (2011) Department of Biology Physical Sciences Department of Ecology Carleton University Delta State University and Evolutionary Biology Ottawa, Ontario Cleveland, MS 38733 The University of Kansas Canada, K1H 5N1 [email protected] Lawrence, Kansas 66045 [email protected] [email protected] Elizabeth Schussler (2013) Christopher Martine Department of Ecology and Department of Biology Evolutionary Biology State University of New York University of Tennessee at Plattsburgh Knoxville, TN 37996-1610 Plattsburgh, NY 12901-2681 [email protected] [email protected] 151 Plant Science Bulletin 56(4) 2010 abstract submission form for the annual among BSA members to share information meeting. This box would solicit information and ideas about education initiatives. from “experts” on the nature and progress on the “broader impacts” component of funded Claire Hemmingway guided a discussion of research projects. We reasoned that BSA PlantingScience progress and new objectives. members with active, well supported research She noted that summer institutes, held at Texas programs would be the ones with the “broader A&M University, provided opportunities for impacts” statements and plans. With exploring active learning activities and information about ongoing activities, we should conducting focus groups with teachers to help be able to discover what ongoing education them implement these active learning projects might be made more public and could possibilities. She also discussed expanding provide topics for education symposia and the roles of mentors in helping to initiate and workshops at the annual meeting. This will conduct experiments with teachers and also meet the goal of fostering collaboration students, and she introduced how video clips 152 Plant Science Bulletin 56(4) 2010 were helping teachers gain a better Botanist” capacity. The BSA could function