1998 Student Awards

The MWASPP awarded two graduate and one undergraduate awards for outstanding oral presentations at the 1996 annual meeting. The awards are of equal status; the judges have enough difficulty selecting the two best in the graduate and undergraduate categories without attempting to determine further ranking.

All awards include membership in the national ASPP. Graduate award winners also select between a subscription to Plant Physiology and Plant Cell with a $50 cash award OR $120 Travel grant to the national ASPP meeting with a $50 cash award. Undergraduate students select between a $100 Research Support grant with a $50 cash award OR $100 Travel grant to the national ASPP meeting with a $50 cash award.

All students who present at the annual meeting receive a subsidy from the MWASPP to help defray the student's expenses for travel and housing at the meeting. Typically, up to $50 is rebated to the students who present at the meeting.

Graduate Student Awards

Kathryn J. Egbert, University of Kansas

The influence of leaf "windows" on Crassulacean Acid metabolism in the South African succulent Senecio Rowleyanus (Asteraceae) Kathryn J. Egbert and Craig E. Martin, Department of Botany, University of Kansas

David T. Hanson, University of Wisconsin

Isoprene Emission and the Evolution of Land Plants David T. Hanson and Thomas D. Sharkey, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin

Undergraduate Student Award

Cory Kending, Knox College

ESR spin probe analysis of membrane fluidity in crude microsomal preparations from heat shocked barley aleurone layers Cory Kending and Mark Brodl, Department of Biology, Knox College, Galesburg, IL 61401.