APPLES interns grow in garden

…brings students to nonprofit & governmental agencies and enrolls them in an online service-course that counts toward graduation. “It was a very valuable experience,” said Becca Beechold, a senior environmental…

Botanical Art Fundamentals Program

…an additional $25 annual administrative fee will be charged in October to continue enrollment in the Fundamentals program through September of the following year. (This fee does not apply after…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

(12 June 1899 – 10 March 1991)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected or co-collected by Egbert Hamilton Walker,…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…accessed on 26 September 2011. 6. The Gallinas River is situated near the present Sierra Leone – Liberia border, was a principal departure point for vessels carrying enslaved people. http://www.pdavis.nl/Gallinas.htm…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…shy of man, was endowed with a strong, vigorous personality — far better able to cope with the advance of civilization than its lesser companion, the Pileated Woodpecker (Ceophleus pileatus);…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

Order of Red Men.”4 On 12 August, 1912 Bellamy married Caroline Louise Mallett (1891-1978) of Etowah, Henderson County, North Carolina and together they had two children, Caroline Bellamy Varnau (?…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…his first book after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin had used these nectar-producing tubes as examples of the precise adaptions of complex structures by natural selection. In this…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…of South Carolina] faculty member, and department head, member of the SC Hall of Science and Technology, and beloved biology professor and mentor to hundreds of practicing scientists and teachers….

Joachim Heinrich Schuette

…head cashier at the Kellogg-Citizens National Bank; Sibyl Schuette, was Head Librarian of the Brown County [Wisconsin] Public Library from 1932 to 1956; and Henry Schuette became a professor of…