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New Herbarium Fellow Joins the Team!
George Burruss C'22 joins Lillian Fulgham C'21 and Angus Pritchard C'22 as the third Herbarium Undergraduate Fellow to be chosen this...
Feb 14, 2019

Jan 26, 2019


Lab Alumni Accept Professorship Offers!
Leighton Reid C'06 recently accepted a tenure-track faculty position in restoration ecology at Virginia Tech University that he will...
Jan 22, 2019

Paper about Forest Resilency on the Domain Accepted for Publication
Our paper, "Differential resistance to tree species loss between two dominant communities in a resilient southeastern landscape" has...
Jan 11, 2019


Herbarium Fellows Engage Plant Awareness Through Wreath Making!
Our two new Herbarium Fellows, Lillian Fulgham C'21 and Angus Pritchard C'22, hosted a wreath making party in the Herbarium on Reading...
Dec 7, 2018


New Herbarium Fellows Announced
This fall, the Sewanee Herbarium launched its Undergraduate Fellows program funded by an endowment established in memory of Ashley Block...
Nov 15, 2018


Field Sampling Completed for Hill Cane Project
Lilllian Fulgham C'21, Angus Pritchard C'22 and George Burruss C'22 assisted with the final field season of the hill cane demography...
Nov 10, 2018


Sarah Neumann and Students Join Research at Sinking Pond
Dr. Sarah McCarthy Neumann (C'99) returned to Sinking Pond this week with three of her students from Alma College to collaborate with us...
Oct 15, 2018

Today is World Bamboo Day!
In our lab, we study populations of hill cane (Arundinaria appalachiana), a species of bamboo endemic to the Southern Appalachian...
Sep 19, 2018

Bamboo Research Presented at Clonal Plant Conference
This summer, I attended the 12th Clonal Plant Symposium that was held in Brunswick ME on the Bowdoin Campus (July 29-Aug. 2). This...
Sep 5, 2018

WSJ Article: America Needs More Botanists!
"The U.S. is running short of people who can tell the forest from the trees." Recent article in the Wall Street Journal chronicles...
Aug 15, 2018

Shelby wraps up OSGF Fellowship
In the latest issue of the Plant Press, Shelby reviews her work as a Herbarium Fellow this past year. Shelby was funded by a grant from...
Jul 25, 2018


Students Present Sapelo Island Research
Students in my Coastal Ecology course presented preliminary results from the dune succession research project that we initiated on Sapelo...
May 1, 2018


Callie Oldfield Awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship!
Callie Oldfield, lab graduate fellow and current PhD student in Botany Dept at the University of Georgia has been awarded a NSF Graduate...
Apr 3, 2018


Shelby Meckstroth Presents Paper on Hydrocotyle Research at ASB Mtg
Shelby Meckstroth presented our paper: "The amelioration of grazing and burial through physiological integration by a clonal dune plant"...
Mar 31, 2018