New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…to locate potentially special habitats and plant communities. The advent of SERNEC.org and other online herbarium databases has opened up many new possibilities for these kinds of research and made…

Steven Worth Leonard

…Plant of the Week: Big-leaf witch-hazel (Hamamelis ovalis). https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/hamamelis_ovalis.shtml accessed on 20 February 2021. Obituary: Steven Worth Leonard. The Lexington Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina. Posted online 18 August, 2022. https://www.the-dispatch.com/obituaries/plex0281187…

Charles Ferson Durant

…result is characteristic of the man. To him the book had no money-value — or rather, it had a value too great to be expressed in terms of dollars or…

Richard Halsted Ward

…practical applications of science. His original work in the advancement of science has been mostly in the direction of microscopy, in which he was among the first to apply the…

Rene Pomerleau

…in Montreal.1 In 1940, Laval’s School of Surveying and Forest Engineering adopted a new curriculum, and Rene Pomerleau (b. 1904) was appointed professor of forest pathology. Pomerleau had been teaching…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…Tree. Owned by: jpaxton1951. Ancestry.com accessed 20 September 2011. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154125936/adams-jewett : accessed 24 October 2021), memorial page for Adams Jewett (26 Jun 1807–10 Mar…

Henry Roland Totten

…of Science in Pharmacy (B.S. Phar.). 4th ed. Prepared & Published by the National Pharmaceutical Syllabus Committee, representing the American Pharmaceutical Association, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the…

DEI Strategic Plan

…and other relevant languages Staff Lead: Emily Oglesby Recruit individuals to lead tours in Spanish and other relevant languages Staff Lead: Joanna Lelekacs Evaluate Twilight Thursdays and (if needed) tweak/change…

Welcome, new Herbarium students!

…Class of 2023, majoring in biology and minoring in chemistry. In addition to making digital images of specimens for our online catalog, he will be learning to file newly accessioned…