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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lawrence Memorial Award – 2008 Recipient.

Mr. Dylan O. Burge, a student of Professor

Paul Manos at Duke University, is the

recipient of the 2008 Lawrence Memorial

Award. For his dissertation research, Mr.

Burge has undertaken a study of the genus

Ceanothus. The proceeds of the Award will

help support his travel to Mexico for field

work and herbarium research.

Lawrence Memorial Award – 2009 Nomina-

tions. The Award Committee of the Lawrence

Memorial Fund invites nominations for the

2009 Lawrence Memorial Award. Honoring the

memory of Dr. George H. M. Lawrence,

founding Director of the Hunt Institute for

Botanical Documentation, the annual Award of

($2,000) is given to support travel for doctoral

dissertation research in systematic botany or

horticulture, or the history of the plant sciences,

including literature and exploration.

Major professors are urged to nominate

outstanding doctoral students who have

achieved official candidacy for their degrees

and will be conducting pertinent dissertation

research that would benefit significantly from

travel enabled by the Award. The Committee

will not entertain direct applications. A

student who wishes to be considered should

arrange for nomination by his/her major

professor; this may take the form of a letter

which covers supporting materials prepared by

the nominee.

Supporting materials should describe brief-

ly but clearly the candidate’s program of

research and how it would be significantly

enhanced by travel that the Award would

support. Letters of nomination and support-

ing materials, including seconding letters,

should be received by the Committee no later

than 1 May 2009 and should be directed to:

Dr. R. W. Kiger, Hunt Institute, Carnegie

Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue,

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA. Tel. (412)

268-2434

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