Students - We Need you!
Student participation in Botany 2008
is necessary, appreciated and supported. Several options
exist to help students to defray cost in attending.
Keep checking here for updates as new opportunities
become available.
Earn
Back your Registration Fee - Student Workers
Students who work up to 10 hours as
conference helpers may have their early student registration
fees refunded. Fee waivers are not granted. Student
workers must register for the meeting and pay the registration
fees.
If you are interested in serving as
a student worker, please fill out the application and
submit it by June 30, 2008, to:
Kathryn Stogran
Botany 2008
2813 Blossom Avenue
Columbus, OH 43231
Fax: 614-895-7866
or email botanystudents@gmail.com
Minority Undergraduate
Participation Grants
This Call for Applicants seeks
to identify eligible students to attend the BOTANY 2008
conference, which
will be held in Vancouver, BC Canada
The Botanical Society of America (BSA) is pleased
to announce a program entitled “Increasing diversity
at the annual Botanical Society of America meeting.” This
program is supported in part by the National Science
Foundation’s Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental
Biology (UMEB) Program and will provide financial and
professional assistance for 10 minority (African-Americans,
Hispanic-Americans, Native Americans/Alaskan Natives
and persons with disabilities) undergraduate students
to attend the annual BSA meeting each year. Applications
will remain open until filled - Apply NOW!
Students will be integrated into professional and
social activities of the conference through
a supportive mentoring network of peers, graduate
students and
professors. Funds will be provided for travel,
housing, registration, and for participation in workshops
and field trips. Each student participant will
also
receive free student membership in the BSA
(http://www.botany.org), including an electronic
subscription to the American
Journal of Botany, for up to seven years while
they continue their undergraduate and graduate education.
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