Society of Herbarium Curators

For the project “Floristic inventory of spring flora of Mayudia Pass, Mishmi Hills in Himalayan biodiversity hotspot region, with emphasis on herbarium collections".

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @socherbcurators Student Awards! Ashutosh Sharma (PhD student) working with Dr. Noorunissa Begum at the FRLH Herbarium, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), Bengaluru, India.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 SHC Student Awards! Mayra Alejandra Herrera Pacheco (MS student) working with Dr. Manuel Luján Anzola at the Universidad de Antioquia, on the project “Taxonomic revision and update of the genus Arawakia (Clusiaceae s.s.) for Colombia".

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @socherbcurators Student Awards! Yun Ye Ho (PhD student) working with Dr. Elliot Gardner at Case Western Reserve University, "Unearthing the species limits and phylogenetics of Bornean earth figs, Ficus subser. Geocarpicae (Moraceae)".

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Society of Herbarium Curators Student Awards! @socherbcurators Grad student Makoa de Almeida working with Carrie Tribble at the University of Washington for the project "Vegetative Proliferations: Evolutionary Watershed or Dead End?".

Congratulations to the 2026 Society of Herbarium Curators (SHC) Student Awardees! @socherbcurators Undergraduate student Fanya Yuan working with Dr. Carrie Tribble at the University of Washington for the project “Investigating the Optimal Herbarium Plant Tissue Storage Protocol".

Join the Society of Herbarium Curators today! Membership benefits include Student Research Awards and an active Early Career Section that is great for networking! Join at the link below or via the QR code. #Botany2025 herbariumcurators.org/membership/

Stop by the Society of Herbarium Curators booth at #Botany2025 to learn more about the society and to get some free stickers to show your support for herbaria! Not a member, join us using this link. herbariumcurators.org/membership/

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Save the Date for our next Coffee with a Curator. Friday, March 28 at 2pm ET Meredith Woodward presenting her thesis research, entitled “The State of Herbaria in TN”. Her talk will provide an overview of important collections, collectors, and efforts to digitize TN herbaria.

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Maura's biographical info is below: Maura C. Flannery Professor Emerita of Biology St. John's University, NY Research Affiliate, A.C. Moore Herbarium, University of South Carolina, Columbia Website: mauraflannery.academia.edu Blog: herbariumworld.wordpress.com

On Friday, Maura will discuss "What I Learned Volunteering at Herbaria." Click the following zoom link to join us: tntech.zoom.us/j/81076193075?… Meeting ID: 810 7619 3075; Passcode: 753544

Our Coffee with a Curator meeting has been rescheduled to THIS Friday, Nov. 1, at 2 PM EST. Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Maura Flannery, author of In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023.

Use the following zoom link to join us: tntech.zoom.us/j/81076193075?… Meeting ID: 810 7619 3075; Passcode: 753544 Anyone interested in herbaria is welcome to attend. All meetings are recorded and will be posted here sites.google.com/view/shc-seusa… , along with upcoming topics.

Join us at 1 PM CST /2 PM EST Friday, October 25th for Coffee with a Curator! Maura Flannery, author of "Herbarium" will be giving a talk entitled "How volunteering at the University of South Carolina herbarium greatly enriched my research in writing in "Herbarium."

To attend, click the following link: tntech.zoom.us/j/84592554423?… ID: 845 9255 4423 Passcode: 205088 All meetings are recorded and will be posted here sites.google.com/view/shc-seusa… , along with upcoming topics.

Join us at 1 PM CST / 2 PM EST Friday, September 27th for Coffee with a Curator! Rabern Simmons will be talking about "The Purdue University Herbaria: stolen samples, conflicting classifications, and beyond". Anyone interested in herbaria is welcome to attend.

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