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As awards are opened their individual pages will be updated with links to apply for the awards.
Most awards will open in January or February of each year.

BSA Awards and Honors Application
& Nomination Deadlines

January 10^th
Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture

February 1^st
AJB Synthesis Papers and Prize

February 15^th
BSA Public Policy Award
   

March 1^st
Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant
   

March 31^st
Samuel Noel Postlethwait Award - Teaching

April 1^st

BSA Awards - General

BSA Emerging Leader Award  |  Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award  |  Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America  |  Jeanette Siron Pelton Award

BSA Awards - Students

BSA Graduate Student Research Awards  |  BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards  |  BSA Young Botanist Awards | PLANTS Grants 

April 15^th 

BSA Awards - Students

Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology - Deadline Extended! 

BSA Travel Awards - General

Developing Nations Travel Awards  |  Professional Members Travel Awards

BSA Student Travel Awards

Bryological and Lichenological Section Student Travel Awards  |  BSA Student and PostDoc Travel Awards  |  Developmental & Structural Section Student Travel Awards  |  Ecological Section Student Travel Awards   |   Economic Botany Section Student Travel Award  |  Genetics Section Student Travel Awards  |   Physiological Section Student Travel Awards  |  Phytochemical Section Travel Awards  |  Pteridological Section & American Fern Society Student Travel Awards  |  Vernon I. Cheadle Student Travel Awards

May 1^st

Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) Faculty and Future Faculty Conference Awards

May 15^th

BSA Impact Award

Botanical Society of America AWARDS

Awards for ESTABLISHED SCIENTISTS:

• Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America
• Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award
• BSA Corresponding Members
• Darbaker Prize
• Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture
• Jeanette Siron Pelton Award
• Grady L. Webster and Barbara D. Webster Structural Botany Publication Award

Given by SECTIONS:

• Winfried and Renate Remy Award - Paleobotanical
• The Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America Award for Contributions to Paleobotany
• Margaret Menzel Award - Genetics
• Samuel Noel Postlethwait Award - Teaching
• Edgar T. Wherry Award - Pteridological
• Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) Faculty and Future Faculty Conference Awards

Awards for EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS:

• AJB Synthesis Papers and Prize
• BSA Emerging Leader Award
• BSA Public Policy Award
• Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant

Given by SECTIONS:

• Michael Cichan Award - Paleobotanical
• Hermann Becker Award - Paleobotanical
• Postdoctoral Research Fund - Paleobotanical

Awards for STUDENTS:

• BSA Public Policy Award
• BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
• BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards
• BSA Young Botanist Awards
• George H.M. Lawrence Memorial Award
• PLANTS Grants
• Vernon I. Cheadle Student Travel Awards
• TRIARCH "Botanical Images" Student Travel Award
• BSA Student and PostDoc Travel Awards

Given by SECTIONS:
Student Presentation and Poster Awards

•      A. J. Sharp Award - ABLS/Bryological and Lichenological Section
•      Ecological Section Best Student Presentation & Poster Awards
•      Genetics Section Presentation Award
•      Isabel Cookson Award - Paleobotanical
•      Katherine Esau Award - Developmental & Structural Section
•      Li-COR Prize - Physiological
•      Maynard Moseley Award - Developmental & Structural and Paleobotanical
•      Physiological Section Student Presentation Award
•      Phytochemical Section Presentation Awards
•      Southeast Section/Association of Southeastern Biologists Student Travel/Presentation Awards

Student Travel Awards

•      Bryological and Lichenological Section Student Travel Awards
•      Developmental & Structural Section Student Travel Awards
•      Ecological Section Student Travel Awards
•      Economic Botany Section Student Travel Award
•      Genetics Section Student Travel Awards
•      Physiological Section Student Travel Awards
•      Phytochemical Section Travel Awards
•      Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) Faculty and Future Faculty Conference Awards
•      Pteridological Section & American Fern Society Student Travel Awards

SPECIAL AWARDS and FUNDS

• BSA Impact Award
• Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant
• James M. and Esther N. Schopf Fund - Paleobotanical