by Theresa Bramblett | May 3, 2011 | Events
Ten students from Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School visited Montgomery Botanical Center as part of the Fairchild Challenge’s Environmental Immersion Day. The students participated in activities, focused on cycad biology with four rotations lasting approximately...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 30, 2011 | Events
Eight visitors from the Key West Garden Club and one Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden employee visited Montgomery for a tour of the collections of palms and cycads. The Key West Garden Club is a non-profit organization and one of Key West’s last remaining free...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 2, 2011 | Events
Montgomery Botanical Center’s 52ndMembers’ Meeting was held Saturday April 2, 2011. The MBC Board of Directors announced MBC’s new President, Nicholas Kelly. Charles P. Sacher, the outgoing President, spoke about MBC’s accomplishments during his four years as...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 2, 2011 | Events
A highlight of the 2011 Members Meeting was the dedication of The Marion and Tex Haynes Patio. The very generous support of Walter Haynes, Marion Haynes, and the Haynes Family has enabled MBC to add this wonderful new outdoor gathering space. This improvement...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 23, 2011 | Research
The fieldwork component of a multi-institutional collaboration focused on conducting research on Bahamian Zamias has recently been completed. The field research, conducted on five separate trips, included fieldwork on all six islands in The Bahamas in which the genus...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 8, 2011 | Events
Dr. Angelica Cibrian, from the New York Botanical Garden, was hosted at Montgomery in early March as part of the Kelly Research Fellows Program. Angelica offered a public seminar, titled: “The use of living collections to understand plant evolution, from genes across...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 1, 2011 | Newsletter
Spring/Summer 2011 Newsletter Spring/Summer 2011 – Volume 19, Number 1 Read the latest issue of our newsletter here. This new issue has articles about collecting in Colombia, Trinidad, Belize, and Hawaii. It also highlights new infrastructure: the Chris Tyson...
by Theresa Bramblett | Feb 28, 2011 | Grants, Research
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $457,530 grant to a team of scientists from Montgomery Botanical Center, Florida International University, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the New York Botanical Garden...
by Theresa Bramblett | Feb 24, 2011 | Events
Dr. Cristina Lopez-Gallego, Professor at the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, is being hosted at Montgomery as part of the Kelly Research Fellows Program at MBC. Cristina is an expert on the ecology and demographics of Zamia, and is a longtime...
by Theresa Bramblett | Feb 4, 2011 | Events
The National Tropical Botanic Garden at the Kampong awarded the 2011 David Fairchild Medal posthumously to Monty Beekman. Dr. Beekman’s medal was accepted by Faith Foss, Professor Beekman’s widow. Dr. Beekman was professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts...
