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…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…brown jug with a corn-cob stopper. Now champagne, etc. is the order of the day… We then scraped away the ‘trash,’ leveled the dirt, and sprinkling down the barn, had

Lisa Marie Giencke

…the spread of beech bark disease in a 2 ha plot at the Huntington Wildlife Forest near Newcomb, NY. Her thesis is titled “Spatiotemporal dynamics of an Adirondack forest.” In…

Elizabeth Kathleen Goldie-Smith

…Goldie-Smith, who usually signed her labels as “E.K.G.S.” Our fungal collection is being cataloged into the searchable on-line database, www.mycoportal.org As we continue to catalog our fungi it is probable…

Nancy Blair Eliason

…North Carolina: North Carolina State Archives. Microfilm. Peace College 1937 Yearbook. http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Peace_College_Lotus_Yearbook/1937/Page_18.html accessed on 4 December 2013. Faculty Archives, East Carolina University. http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/archives/facultye.cfm accessed on 4 December 2013. Pers. comm.,…

Allen Hierome Curtiss

…D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. 8. Wikipedia contributors. “Peaks of…

Dennis Harold Latham

…Dr. John Nathaniel Couch of the Botany Department at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who had provided guidance for the project.8 Latham had collected the fungus “from a moderately dry,…

Peter MacOwan

…the newly established Shaw College in Grahamstown [in 1861]. His health rapidly improved and leaving chemistry behind he resumed studying botany in which he had become interested while still in…

Ellsworth Bethel

…“Up to 1907 I had the invaluable assistance of Mr. Bethel, of Denver, and able and tireless collector, thoroughly acquainted with all parts of Colorado.” Of the 94 species of…