Undergraduate Student Awards and Opportunities
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Whitford Award
- Chilton Undergraduate Research Award
- Outstanding Plant Biology Major
- Outstanding Botany Club Member
- Outstanding Plant Biology Achievement Award
- Most Promising New Plant Biology Major
- Miscellaneous Undergraduate Awards
Additional websites for students
- North Carolina State University Undergraduate research opportunities
http://www.ncsu.edu/undergrad-research/- American Society for Plant Biology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
http://www.asbo.org/education/summerundergrad.cfm
- Botanical Society of America Young Botanist of the Year Award
http://www.Botany.org/awards_grants/detail/bsayby.php- NC Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program http://www.mae.ncsu.edu/spacegrant/fs/s1/
Web site : http://www.ncsu.edu/phi_beta_kappa/
Purpose : Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and best known society that recognizes academic achievement in the liberal arts. Election to Phi Beta Kappa is among the highest honors bestowed on undergraduate students.
Eligibility: Students must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in a liberal arts discipline, including Plant Biology and have achieved second- semester junior status Students are selected based on outstanding academic achievement, with the proportion of students limited to the top 10% of the class.
Selection: Students are selected by the Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
Recent Plant Biology recipients
2007 - Ty Roach, Palmyra Romeo
2006 - Robert Garner, Margaret Shearin
2005 - Shanna Chriscoe, Elisabeth Marie Meyer, Amanda Saville
2004 - Firas Naji
2003 – Jeffrey Jones, Kelly Konczal, Kevin McAbee, Emily Pulley, Amy Schmidt, Erin York Possiel
2001 – Jennifer Marie Bradford
2000 – Jennifer Modliszewski, Tracie Michelle Coble, Jennifer Rains Jones, Aditi Dilip Shah
1999 – Lisa Marie Chamblee, Stephanie Lynn Gupton
1998 – David Scot Ellum
1996 – Ethan Victor Brown, Laura Jeanne Gignon 1995 – Elizabeth Chesnut, Jason Cooke, Karyn Lois Dumas
Purpose: To recognize the outstanding undergraduate in the department
Deadline: Mid April
Nominations: Plant Biology Awards Committee
Criteria: Good grades, other plant biology department-related criteria including research, teaching, participation in the Botany club. Award cannot be given to a graduating senior since the funds must be spent on tuition the following (Fall) semester.Award: Up to $1000 divided between up to 2 students
Recent recipients:
2008- Laura Sims
2007- Joslyn T. Curtis
2006 – Susan Whitney Kirkmann
2004 - Elisabeth Meyer
2003 - Emily Pulley
2002 - Jennifer Bradford
2000 - Sandra Straw
1999 - Stephanie Gupton / Jennifer Jones
1998 - Reathel Geary / Jennifer Phelps
1997 - Laura Flint
Chilton Undergraduate Research Award
Purpose: To recognize the outstanding undergraduate in the department
Deadline: Mid April
Nominations: Plant Biology Awards Committee
Criteria: Students must be rising sophomores, juniors, or seniors with an interest in becoming involved in research with a faculty member in Plant Biology.Students must secure the consent of a faculty member in Plant Biology to be their sponsor.Students can be majors in any department in any college.
Award: Up to $1500
Recent recipients:
2008-2009 - Robert Kyle Gazdeck ( Rebecca Boston)
2007-2008 - Margaret Shearin (Faculty Mentor: Tom Wentworth )
2006-2007 - Martin Allen (Faculty Mentor: Jenny Xiang)
Chosen by the Plant Biology Awards CommitteeListed in the Commencement Ceremony Brochure
Receive certificate and Book
Recent recipients:
2008 - Matthew Cleary
2007- Ryan M. Jordan
2006 – Elisabeth Meyer, Erin York Possiel
2005 – Firas Naji, Shanna Chriscoe
2004 – Emily Pulley
2003 – Jennifer Bradford
2002 – Jennifer Modliszewski
2001 – Stephanie Gupton
Chosen by the Plant Biology Awards CommitteeListed in the Commencement Ceremony Brochure
Receive certificate and Book
Recent recipients:
2006 – Ryan Adasme
2004 – Brianna Foley, Zachary Shearin
2003 – Lisa Carter
2002 – Justin Cooper
2001 – Jacob Traverse
Chosen by the Plant Biology Awards CommitteeListed in the Commencement Ceremony Brochure
Recent recipients:
2008 - Margaret Shearin
2007- Gary Allan Pigg, Jr.
2002 – Kevin Miller
Chosen by Plant Biology Awards Committee
Recent recipients
2008- Rosemary Grinnan
2007- Sherrie E. Emerine
2006 – Taylor Curtis
2005 – Susan Whitney Kirkman
2004 – Zach Hill, Ryan Adasme
2003 – Elisabeth Meyer
2002 – Ryan Parks