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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 of each year.

BSA Awards and Honors Application
& Nomination Deadlines

December 15th
Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture

March 1^st
Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant  |  BSA Public Policy Award    

March 15^th

BSA Awards - General
Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America  |  BSA Corresponding Members  

April 1^st

BSA Awards - General

Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award  |  BSA Emerging Leader Award  |  Jeanette Siron Pelton Award 

BSA Awards - Students

BSA Young Botanist Awards  |  BSA Graduate Student Research Awards  |  BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards  |  Donald R. Kaplan Award in Comparative Morphology 

May 1^st 

BSA Travel Awards - General
(this year they are conference registration awards)

Developing Nations Travel Grants  |  Professional Members Travel Grants

BSA Student Travel Awards
(this year they are conference registration awards)

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

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
• A. J. Sharp Award - ABLS/Bryological and Lichenological Section
• Edgar T. Wherry Award - Pteridological

Awards for EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS:

• BSA Emerging Leader Award
• BSA Public Policy Award

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:

•      Isabel Cookson Award - Paleobotanical, Botany Conference Presentation
•      Katherine Esau Award - Developmental & Structural Section, Botany Conference Presentation
•      Maynard Moseley Award - Developmental & Structural and Paleobotanical, Botany Conference Presentation
•      Emanuel D. Rudolph Award - Historical, Botany Conference Presentation
•      Ecological Section Best Student Presentation & Poster Awards, Botany Conference Presentations
•      Genetics Section Presentation Award, Botany Conference Presentation
•      Physiological Section Best Student Presentations, Botany Conference Presentation
•      Li-COR Prize - Physiological (Paper)
•      Developmental & Structural Section Student Travel Awards
•      Ecological Section Student Travel Awards
•      Economic Botany Section Student Travel Award
•      Genetics Section Student Travel Awards
•      Pteridological Section & American Fern Society Student Travel Awards

SPECIAL AWARDS and FUNDS

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