Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…investigate UNC’s discriminatory practices in wages, hiring and admission. This investigation resulted in positive changes for female students, faculty and employees. In 1980 she was inducted into the Order of…

Carol Sue Bissett Carpenter

…University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Records. 2. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Carpenter&GSiman=1&GScty=23084&GRid=90884629& accessed on 15 January 2015. 3. George E. Carpenter Obituary. Obits for Life. http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/661032/Carpenter-George.php accessed on…

Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler

…bryophytes BPI: United States Department of Agriculture: fungi CUP: Cornell University: fungi DUKE: bryophytes F: Field Museum: fungi, bryophytes, algae FLAS: University of Florida: fungi, pteridophytes, bryophytes, lichens ISC: Iowa…

Emma Lewis Lipps

…for more than forty year. Photo courtesy of Find A Grave, Memorial ID 91332052. “Emma Lewis Lipps was born in Alexandria, Virginia on February 8, 1919 and died in Rome,…

Velma Dare Matthews

…fungus proved in vain. However, in the summer of 1936 the same fungus was found growing on an insect in the same pool. This time the writer succeeded in growing…

Josiah Hale

…Sagittaria calycina maxima Engelm. collected in Louisiana is the type specimen. Jared G. Smith re-named it Lophotocarpus calycinus in 1900 (6). Josiah Hale was also interested in cryptogams (7). He…

New Species of Foamflower

…home using its Latin name, which means “little crown.” Others would call it “foamflower.” It’s easy to recognize and a beautiful plant growing in beautiful places. Perhaps fewer know that…

Elsie Julia Gibson Whitney

…9 November 2011. 2. http://www.fwspubs.org/doi/pdf/10.3996/nafa.46.0002 McAtee, W. L. (1923 ) Biological Survey of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Part II. Insects, Arachnids, and Chilopods of Pribilof Islands, Alaska. IN North American