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       Julia F. Morton Award

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This award was created at the 1997 Council Meeting, to honor the late Julia F. Morton, and was first awarded in 1997. The award is to be presented for the best poster at the annual meeting for students or young professionals (5 years or less post-doctoral experience). The recipient recceives an award certificate and $500.00. Eligible young professionals should indicate their eligibility for this prize when they submit their abstract to the annual meeting.

2011 Amanda Vickers
Chromatographic Quantification of Medicinal Compounds in Flowering and Non-flowering Wild-Harvested Actaea racemosa L..

2010 Xitlali Aguirre-Dugua
The gourd tree Crescentia cujete: phylogeography and ethnobotany of a useful fruit in Mexico.

2009 Rebecca Hamilton
Investigations of Essential Oil Combinations as Antimicrobial Agents in Cosmetics.

2008 Neeva Shrestha (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Study of Medicinal plants in Nepalese community of Hawai'i. (PDF Abstract)

2007 Brian Doyle (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr.: An Herbal Therapeutic from Costa Rica for Women’s Health. (PDF Abstract)

2006 Surote Paengma (Khon Kaen University, Thailand)
Study on Wisdom of traditional healer employing sanding medicine in northeast Thailand.(PDF Abstract)
Co-authors: Chayan Picheansoonthon, Prathan Luecha and Vichai Chokevivat.

Arika Virapongse (Khon Kaen University, Thailand)
Ethnomedicine of the Kui. (PDF Abstract)
Co-authors: Chayan Picheansoonthon and Julraht Konsil.

2005 Tegan Jones (Northwestern University)
In Search of Ramon: A Paleoethnobotanical Study of Plant Remains from Tikkal.
Co-authors: Renate Pudzisz, Chris Morehart, and David Lentz.


2004 Linda Lyon (Frostburg State University)
Traditional Healing in the Contemporary Life of the Antanosy People of Madagascar.

2003 Sarah Khan (New York Botanical Garden – CUNY)
Madhumeha: diabetes mellitus and classical Ayurvedic formulations for treatment.

2002 Co-Recipients
Adam Edwards (Florida International University)
Variation of Caffeine and Related Alkaloids in Ilex vomitoria Ait. (Yaupon holly):
A Model of Intraspecific Alkaloid Variation
.

Anna Herforth (Cornell University)
Anti-Fungal Plants of the Peruvian Amazon: A Survey of Ethnomedical Uses and Biological Activity.
Co-authors: Juan Ruiz, Esteban Mosquera, Maria Laux, and Eloy Rodriguez.


2001 Sandra Banick (University of Hawai`i)
Ethnoecological conservation of totora (Schoenoplectus californicus, Cyperaceae) in Peru.

2000 Michael Walker
Ethnobotanical investigation of Acjachemen percussion instruments.

1999 No Award granted
Annual Meeting was held in St. Louis, Missouri in conjunction with the XVI International Botanical Congress.

1998 Anne Martinussen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
The Use of Natural Plant Resources in the Village of Medina Kouta, Senegal.

1997 D. Milanowski (Washington University, St. Louis)
Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids of Croton lechleri Muell. Arg., A Source of the Wound-Healing Latex ‘Sangre de Drago' from Northern Peru.

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