Each spring the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University offers a research fellowship and a number of awards to support independent research projects submitted by students, post-doctoral researchers, and biological and horticultural science professionals. Stemming from the Arboretum’s mission to support and facilitate scientific inquiry and knowledge sharing about the plant kingdom, these opportunities enable researchers […]
In a newly published study, Rosanne Healy (2013 Sargent Award recipient) and colleagues detected eight truffle species (genus Tuber), including a brand new species previously unknown to science, in the root communities of some of our trees. To honor the location of its discovery, the truffle has been named Tuber arnoldianum. abstract» Read more in the Boston Globe.
Stacey Leicht-Young (2013 Putnam Fellow), Rosanne Healy (2013 Sargent Award recipient) and Peter Del Tredici (Senior Scientist Emeritus) collaborated on a project to examine the associations of nonnative plants with the native fungal community in the field. They found that Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb. or Oriental bittersweet is colonized by native endomycorrhizal fungi, potentially aiding the ability of oriental bittersweet to move into new landscapes. abstract »
The Arboretum is pleased to announce the 2016 Arboretum Award recipients. Several graduate students are being supported by these awards including Alexander Susko and Jonathan Mahoney (Deland Award), Callin Switzer (Sinnott Award), Meng Li (Hu Award) and Meghna Krishnadas (Ashton Award). Adam Roddy (post-doctoral fellow at Yale University) and Danilo Fernando (Associate Professor at the State University of New York) were awarded the Jewett Prize. The research of Kuo-Fang Chung (Associate Research Fellow in Taiwan) and Dan Sullivan (Arnold Arboretum Visiting Fellow) is supported by the Sargent Award. Congratulations!
The Arboretum is pleased to announce the 2015 Arboretum Award recipients. Graduate students supported by the awards include Steve Decina from Boston University (Deland Award) and Nalaka Geekiyanage from Kyoto University in Japan (Ashton Award). Jianhua Li, associate professor of biology at Hope College and Luke Keogh, post-doctoral fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Germany were awarded the Sargent Award. Congratulations!
Ling Guo is a curator at the Beijing Botanic Garden and a Jewett Prize recipient. She describes her work utilizing the Arboretum’s Malus collection to improve the databases of ornamental crabapples as a Registration Authority in Silva. pdf »
The Arboretum is pleased to announce the 2014 Arboretum Award recipients. Several graduate students are being supported by these awards including Laura Garrison and Kristel Schoonderwoerd (Deland Award), Bryan Connolly ( Cunin/Sigal Award), Meng Li (Hu Award) and Janice Chan (Ashton Award). Ling Guo, curator at the Beijing Botanic Garden, was awarded the Jewett Prize. Andrew Groover, geneticist at the USDA Forest Service, is supported by the Sargent Award. Congratulations!
In the current issue of Silva, Faye Rosin introduces the 2013 recipients of the Arnold Arboretum fellowships and awards which foster independent and collaborative research using the collections. pdf»
In an interview in Silva, Faye Rosin discusses how the Arnold Arboretum fellowships and awards foster independent and collaborative research using the collections. pdf »
To support their research in the living collection, students Juan Losada (Aula Dei Experimental Station–CSIC, Spain), Mariana Oliveira e Castro (University of Coimbra, Portugal), and Preeti Rao (Boston University) were granted Deland Awards for Student Research. more »
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