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…

Hiden Toy Cox, Jr.

…new genus of the Rhizidiaceae.” He continued at Carolina for his doctorate, studying with Dr. Joseph Edison Adams. The title of his doctoral thesis in 1947 was “The comparative anatomy…

New Lichens in The Old North State

…broad base of public support for their preservation. Addressing these two needs are the most important goals of our project.” 1 Lichens are found in every county in North Carolina….

Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…Pontiac, Lexington, Towanda, LeRoy, El Paso, Larchwood, Decatur, Joliet, and Dwight. Fell also made several additions to Bloomington and founded the Town of Normal which had originally been known as…

Arbor Renovation Party at the Dead Mule

…There is also a pay lot directly behind the Dead Mule with free parking on Sundays. For more parking info visit www.parkonthehill.com Registration: Register online here or on-site Sunday, June…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…landscape plan included allées of trees that reinforced the formal arrangement of the road network, addition of open spaces resembling collegiate quadrangles, straight lines of trees along the edges of…

Bernard Carl Mikula

(? – 2017) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected by Bernard Mikula; as we continue to catalog our collections…

Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale

…Whiffen Barksdale, 1916-1981. Mycologia 74(3): 359-361. 3. American Type Culture Collection. https://www.atcc.org/ searched 8 May 2020. 4. “Records of the Laboratory (RG5) ALMA WHIFFEN BARKSDALE RECORDS (1938-1973). https://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/libr/finding_guide/barkweb2.asp.html Accessed on…