Yearly Archives: 2014

Student Research Grant Award – $500

Student Research Grant Award Deadline: 1 Feb 2015 Download: SHC_grant_application.doc Scope: Two $500 research grants will be awarded to students whose research contributes to or uses herbarium resources in ways that augment the collections. Research on any taxa typically accessioned in herbaria including all plant, fungal, lichen, and algal lineages is eligible. Supported activities could…
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Herbarium Director Position Announcement

EEB Associate Professor Search – Announcement Field Botany/Herbarium Director The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, seeks to fill a tenure-track position in Field Botany at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Teaching duties may include an undergraduate field botany course each year and a graduate course in the…
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Guidance on Applying for a Digitization Grant

iDigBio has released a white paper to provide guidance to principal investigators who are interested in applying for funding from the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The guide was compiled with guidance from NSF program officers and senior iDigBio staff. Read the guide at https://www.idigbio.org/content/writing-proposal-adbc-program-nsf.
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President’s Message

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the official constitution of the Society of Herbarium Curators – and what a decade it has been! As I pick up the reins from the very capable hands of Past President Alexander Krings (NCSU) for the 2014-2016 term, I wanted my incoming message not only to communicate the…
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Emerging Professionals Group

Emerging Professionals Group
New Blog: Cracking the Collections – A group of emerging professionals in the natural history collection field got together at a Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) meeting a few years ago and decided to start a blog. It is online at: http://crackingthecollections.wordpress.com/. Although, the content includes all natural history collections, not…
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