November 2018 - Volume 2 Issue 4

(Photo credit: Kiphofia, Nidularia, and Calochortus - Jason W. Baker
Echinocereus and Opuntia pollen - Blake Wellard)
Special thanks to alum Jason W. Baker for creating the banner

Welcome to our newest major:

Christian Phomsouvanh - Track A option 1

Track A option 1 - Laboratory Botany Emphasis
Track A option 2 - Pre-Natural Medicine
Track B - Field Botany Emphasis
Track C - General Botany Emphasis

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Mary Carver Hall Herbarium at WSU is now online!

Thanks to a digitization pilot project by Botany major Kris Valles, information about the collection of Utah mosses that was donated to WSU by LeRoy Behling is being digitized and made accessible through the Consortium of North American Bryophyte Herbaria. This collection of over 2,500 specimens will be joined by the approximately 1,000 lichen specimens collected by Dr. Heather Root during her research on lichens as monitors for air quality. The Consortium is part of the Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) project which is funded by the National Science Foundation The goal of iDigBio is to make natural history collections, including those in small, regional depositories, available to researchers, students, teachers, and the general public.
(Photo: Kris Valles working in the herbarium. Photo taken by Dr. Sue Harley)

The annual
Faculty Awards Luncheon
was held
November 9, 2018.
Botany Department Chair
Dr. Sue Harley
was honored for her 30 years of dedicated service to the university. Thank you, Dr. Harley, for all of your hard work!

Happy Thanksgiving!

The WSU campus will be closed on
Thursday, November 22 and
Friday, November 23.
Enjoy your holiday!

Fall 2018 Graduation is December 14

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

13th Annual Utah Conference
on Undergraduate Research (UCUR)
February 22, 2019
Weber State University Campus

UCUR is designed to showcase the best undergraduate work by students from all over the state. Presentations include visual displays or exhibits, performance pieces, poster presentations, and oral presentations of work in all academic disciplines, from art history to molecular biology.

Read more about it here

The J. Paul Riley AWRA Utah Section is sponsoring a student paper competition. Paper submission deadline is
Friday, February 15, 2019.
Get the competition details here.

ALUMNI

Botany Alumni
Please keep in touch. Send an email to botany@weber.edu to let us know what you are doing. We look forward to hearing from you!
If you are going to be in the area, we'd love to see you. Let us know you are coming and we can arrange a visit with some current students or show you what's currently happening in the department.

CALLING ALL BOTANY ALUMNI!!!

The Botany Department is in need of volunteers.
We are always looking for people to help with science fairs, man tables at events, etc. If you have a free hour or two let us know, we'd love to put you to work!

Email us at botany@weber.edu today!

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