Miami University

Four seniors receive Young Botanist Awards

05/28/2009

Four senior botany majors from Miami University were awarded the Young Botanist Award, Certificate of Special Achievement, from the Botanical Society of America (BSA): David Farler of Fairfield; Jane Hopkins of Springboro; Amelia Huerta of Oxford; and Michael Schwieterman of Celina.

The award recognizes outstanding graduating seniors in the plant sciences and encourages participation in the BSA. Recipients, nominated by faculty at their universities, are selected based on academic performance, involvement in research, leadership, and interest and potential for a career in botany.

The Miami students were among 29 awardees from 17 schools. More Miami botany students have won recognition by the BSA for the Young Botanist Award than any other department in the country, according to the department of botany. In the past 10 years, they have received 22 of the 182 Young Botanist Award Certificates of Special Achievement.

Faculty advisers to the students are: for Farler-Carolyn Keiffer and John Kiss; for
Hopkins-John Kiss; for
Huerta and Schwieterman-Susan Barnum.

A full list of Young Botanist Award recipients is available online at Young Botanist Award.