Ten Years of Botany in Action

Inspired by a conference on global biodiversity, sponsored by their local garden club, Susan Clancy and Paula Cook Sculley wanted to do something to help curb the loss of species. Ten years ago this summer, they founded Botany in Action to help fund the training of the next generation of botanists. All the money raised by the organzation goes to fund graduate students' field work in botany, ecology and ethnobotany.

Awards from Botany in Action have funded students' work in areas rich in biodiversity, many of which are threatened by development. At a time when so much of the available funding is going toward biomolecular and genetic research, the agency's funding can really make a difference to developing botanists.

Link: Decade-old Botany Program Reaps Rewards from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 11:12 AM on September 8, 2005

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