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News Releases
Reznicek honored with Michigan Botanical Club Lifetime Achievement Award
May 2012
 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. READ MORE
Legend from the world of Michigan botany, Edward G. Voss, dies, leaves the newly released Field Manual of Michigan Flora to extend his legacy
February 2012
 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. READ MORE.
New species of red algae named after Curator Emeritus, Michael J. Wynne
February 2012
 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. READ MORE
NSF Grants to Digitize Biological Collections
August 2011
Professor Timothy James 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. READ MORE..
Curator Tony Reznicek appears on Out of the Blue
June 2011
 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.
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. Click HERE to view it.
In Memoriam - Rogers McVaugh - 1909-2009
 Rogers McVaugh, Harley Harris Bartlett Professor of Botany and an internationally renowned authority on Compositae, Myrtaceae, Campanulaceae, woody Rosaceae, and the flora of Mexico, died on September 24, 2009. He was Curator of Vascular Plants at the University of Michigan Herbarium from 1946 until 1979 and Herbarium Director from 1972 until 1976. He remained active in retirement as Research Professor of Botany at the University of North Carolina. In collaboration with his former student William R. Anderson, he published the acclaimed series "Flora Novo-Galiciana," the culmination of his many years of study of the flora of western Mexico. Read more about Rogers McVaugh.
Botanical Artist Karin Douthit
 The career of Karin Douthit, botanical artist at the Herbarium since 1969, is featured in an article of the University Record. Many of her beautiful drawings are featured on the Malpighiaceae website. The flower shown here is of Byrsonima kariniana, a species named in her honor. Read the article.
Michael J. Wynne Marine Algae Lecture
 Michael J. Wynne, Curator Emeritus (Algae), gave a "Special Invited Lecture" at the 48th annual meetings of the North East Algal Society held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 18-19 April, 2009. His presentation, "Marine algae and early explorations in the upper North Pacific and Bering Sea," was based on his review article published in the March, 2009, issue of the journal "Algae." A link to the publication is provided: ALGAE.
Paul Berry publishes in the journal Systematic Botany
 Paul Berry and Benjamin W. van Ee explore the phylogeny and taxonomy of Croton (Euphorbiaceae s.s.) on Jamaica. See the article here.
William R. Anderson recognized in the journal Systematic Botany
 Thomas F. Daniel and Stephen G. Weller present an excellent biography of Professor Emeritus and Curator Emeritus William R. Anderson in the the journal Systematic Botany. See the article here.
Dr. Timothy James Arrives
 Dr. James joins the Herbarium as an Assistant Fungal Curator and Assistant Professor. Welcome Tim!
Shade coffee benefits more than birds
 Here's one more reason to say "shade grown, please" when you order your morning cup of joe. Shade coffee farms, which grow coffee under a canopy of multiple tree species, not only harbor native birds, bats and other beneficial creatures, but also maintain genetic diversity of native tree species and can act as focal points for tropical forest regeneration.
The finding comes from a study published by EEB Ph.D. student Shalene Jha and Professor Christopher Dick in the Dec. 23 issue of the journal Current Biology. Listen for Jha on NPR’s Science Friday on Friday, Dec. 26 beginning at about 3 p.m. (U-M News Service press release) Photo: Jha
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"Living fossil" tree contains genetic imprints of rain forests under climate change
 A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future. The research appears in the November issue of the journal Evolution.Symphonia globulifera is a widespread tropical tree with a history that goes back some 45 million years in Africa, said Christopher Dick, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology who is lead author on the paper. Photo: The distinctive trunk and aerial roots of the tropical tree Symphonia globulifera in a rain forest in Panama. Rolando Pérez, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
U-M News Service press release.
Anderson Awarded High Honor
 William R. Anderson, professor emeritus of botany and curator emeritus of the University of Michigan Herbarium, was presented with the Asa Gray Award at the international Botany 2008 meetings in Vancouver, Canada in July 2008. This is the highest honor bestowed by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists for outstanding contributions to systematic botany. Anderson’s research and collaborative projects are focused on the neotropical plant family Malpighiaceae and on floristics of Latin America.
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Species Focus:
Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens
 This is one of the most widespread native orchids in North America, and is especially common in the limestone regions of Michigan. The Yellow Lady-slippers form a world-wide complex and their systematics are still somewhat uncertain. Two distinct entities occur in Michigan, one, like this with yellowish sepals that are not strongly twisted and another with purple-brown sepals that are strongly twisted.
photo: A.A. Reznicek
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