Mary Eugenia Wharton

…importance of field studies in botany; she searched for plants throughout Kentucky, gathering data that she would later use in her books. In 1942, she discovered an unnamed species of…

Enchantress along the Eno

…when it is in bloom, and we must have chosen its peak bloom day by chance. It is not a rare plant in the Piedmont of North Carolina, but all…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…Gray Card Index in the hallway in dark green drawers, I had to check whether this story was wholly apocryphal, but indeed, every drawer had a fine gray powder in…

Richard Joel Reader

…Science degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada. In 1973 he completed his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Curriculum in Ecology. The title…

John Robert Raper

…(1965) Nuclear ratios and complementation in common-A heterokaryons of Schizophyllum commune. Am. J. Bot., 52:547=552. Raper, John R. (1965) Introduction. In: Incompatibility in Fungi, ed. K. Esser and J. R….

What’s Your Flavor? Special Event

…of art inspired by food-related pieces in the Museum’s collection. These artists include: John Beerman, Hannah Dodson, Carlos Gonzalez Garcia, Anne Hobgood, Senora Lynch, Chieko Murasugi, Jermaine “JP” Powell, and…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…I gradually realized that all of the behavior I was studying was some form of communication and that what I was trying to understand was the evolution of communication by…

Floras

…U.S. In 2015, the UNC Carolina Apps Program teamed up with NCU Herbarium and NCBG staff to develop the iPhone/iPad application FloraQuest. This app allowed for mobile identification of over

Haru (Francia) Chisaki Hommersand

…five siblings. In 1942, because of their Japanese heritage, they were all uprooted and interned at Poston Camp I in the Arizona Desert. While interned at the relocation camp, as…