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Botanical Society of America (BSA)
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Award for Contributions to Paleobotany
The Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America offers an award recognizing significant contributions to paleobotany, service, or outstanding scholarship; recipients receive a plaque at the Section’s Annual Business Meeting.
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Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant
The Botanical Society of America and American Society of Plant Taxonomists offer a $1,000 annual grant for projects that advance botanical advocacy, public engagement, policymaker outreach, or policy action related to plant science.
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- $1,000
AJ Harris Graduate Student Research Award (Memorial Fundraiser)
The Botanical Society of America is establishing the AJ Harris Graduate Student Research Award to honor the late evolutionary biologist AJ Harris and to support graduate student research in botany; an initial $20,000 endowment has been reached and a further $5,000 fundraising goal was set to raise the annual award to $1,500.
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- $1,500
Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant
The Botanical Society of America (BSA) and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) offer the annual Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant, a $1,000 award to support projects that shape public policy, broaden public engagement, or connect the public and policymakers with botanical science; recipients are recognized at the annual Botany meeting.
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- $1,000
BSA Emerging Leader Award
The Botanical Society of America’s Emerging Leader Award is an annual prize recognizing creative, influential scholarship and leadership across all areas of botany; recipients are honored at the BSA annual meeting, invited to give a special lecture at the next meeting, receive $2,000 toward conference expenses, a five‑year BSA membership, and an invitation to submit a special paper to the American Journal of Botany.
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- $2,000
BSA Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award
The Botanical Society of America (BSA) offers the annual Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award, established in 2026 to recognize creative and influential scholarship across all areas of botany and demonstrated positive impacts in research, education, and service to the botanical community.
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- $2,000
Corresponding Members (Botanical Society of America)
The Botanical Society of America designates Corresponding Members—an honorary lifetime membership recognizing distinguished plant scientists who live and work outside the United States and who have made outstanding, career-long contributions to the plant sciences through research, scholarship and often education, policy, or service.
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Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America
The Botanical Society of America awards the Distinguished Fellow, its highest honor, to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Society’s mission through excellence in basic research, education, public policy, and/or exceptional service to the professional botanical community.
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Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology
The Botanical Society of America administers the Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology, providing up to two annual awards of up to $10,000 to support Ph.D. dissertation research that advances understanding of evolutionary or developmental diversity in plant form (funds may cover equipment, supplies, travel, and summer support).
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- $10,000
Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture in Comparative Development
Botanical Society of America’s Kaplan Memorial Lecture invites nominations for a distinguished speaker to deliver the Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture at the Society's annual Botany Conference (Aug 1–5, 2026, Tucson); the honor includes a $500 honorarium, conference registration, and partial travel reimbursement—nominations for 2026 are closed and will reopen in early 2027, and inquiries or future nominations should be sent to the Kaplan Memorial Lecture Committee via Heather Cacanindin (hcacanindin@botany.org).
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- $500
Economic Botany Section Student Travel and Presentation Awards
The Botanical Society of America's Economic Botany Section provides a $500 student travel and presentation award to support student attendance and presentation at the Society’s BOTANY conference (most recently BOTANY 2026 in Tucson).
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- $500
Genetics and Genomics Section Poster Presentation Award
The Botanical Society of America’s Genetics and Genomics Section offers the Genetics and Genomics Section Poster Presentation Award to recognize outstanding student research posters in plant genetics and genomics presented at a BSA meeting.
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Genetics Section Graduate Student Research Awards
The Genetics Section of the Botanical Society of America offers Graduate Student Research Awards that provide $500 for research expenses plus an additional $500 to support attendance at a future BSA meeting.
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- $1,000
Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology
The Botanical Society of America offers the Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology—an annual endowed award of up to $10,000 to support Ph.D. research focused on phylogeny, trait evolution across clades, or phylogenetically patterned biotic relationships; funds may cover equipment, supplies, research and meeting travel, and summer support, and awardees are expected to publish part of the work in American Journal of Botany (OA fees covered).
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- $10,000
James M. and Esther N. Schopf Fund - Paleobotanical
The Botanical Society of America’s Paleobotanical Section established the James M. and Esther N. Schopf Fund to enhance the collegiality and effectiveness of its annual meeting.
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- $50,000
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