News
Three new chanterelle mushrooms discovered in the Midwest
Matthew Foltz,
a mycologist working at the herbarium on a project to digitize the fungal collection, has recently described three new species of prized-edible chanterelle mushrooms from the midwestern United States.
4/5/2013
Herbarium completes imaging and digitization of its type collections
Herbarium director Paul Berry recently announced that the University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH) has completed a five-year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to image and database its rich holdings of type collections of plants and fungi.
3/25/2013
New additions for the Herbarium's Great Lakes holdings
The past y
ear saw the addtion of several important items to its holdings, including those from the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, the late Edward G. Voss's personnal herbarium and those from Gary J. Pierce's collection.
3/19/2013
"Michigan Botanist" Pays Tribute to Ed Voss
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igan Botanical Club’s peer-reviewed quarterly journal The Michigan Botanist has dedicated its current issue to Ed Voss, the former University of Michigan Professor of Botany and Herbarium Curator of Vascular Plants, who passed away February 13, 2012.
2/15/2013
NSF grant for Dick's Amazon biota research is part of a $4 million US-Brazil initiative
Professor C
hristopher Dick was awarded a $265,000 five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
12/1/2012
Reznicek honored with MBC Lifetime Achievement Award
In recognition of 
Dr. Tony Reznicek’s countless contributions to the understanding of Michigan plants and ecology and the Great Lakes Region, the Michigan Botanical Club has bestowed their Lifetime Achievement Award upon him.
5/1/2012
Beverly Walters collaborates to map at-risk plants at Matthaei-Nichols
Herbarium Botan
ist Beverly Walters is part of a special grant that helps locate and assess at-risk plant communities growing on the botanical gardens four properties - Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Nichols Arboretum, Mud Lake Bog, and Horner McLaughlin Woods.
3/8/2012
Legend from the world of Michigan botany, Edward G. Voss, dies, leaves the newly released Field Manual of Michigan Flora to extend his legacy
Edward G. Voss, professor emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, curator emeritus of vascular plants at the University Herbarium, and a legendary teacher at the U-M Biological Station, died on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, just three days before the release of his latest book.
2/2/2012
New species of red algae named after Curator Emeritus, Michael J. Wynne
A new species of red algae was named after Michael J. Wynne, Curator Emeritus (Algae), namely, Beringia wynnei, by Bridgette Clarkston of the University of New Brunswick, now at the University of British Columbia.
2/1/2012
NSF grants to digitize biological collections
Professor Timothy Ja
mes and Rich Rabeler, assistant research scientist, have been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation as part of an initiative to integrate and digitize information for biologists, policy-makers and the general public.
8/4/2011
Curator Tony Reznicek appears on Out of the Blue
Curator Tony Reznicek discusses the development of Great Lakes Gardens on a segment of Out of the Blue featuring the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. Click HERE to view it.
6/1/2011
Herbarium Featured in the University Record
The Herbarium is featured in the University of Michigan staff and faculity newspaper the University Record Novmeber 2010 in an article written by Kevin Brown.
11/15/2010
