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As awards are opened their individual pages will be updated with links to apply for the awards.
Most awards will open in January or February of each year.

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BSA Awards and Honors Application
& Nomination Deadlines

January 15, 2026
BSA Awards - Established Scientists
Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture

February 2, 2026
BSA Awards - Established Scientists
BSA Corresponding Members

BSA Awards - Students
Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology
Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology

February 16, 2026
BSA Awards - Students
BSA Graduate Student Research Awards

February 20, 2026
BSA Awards - Early-Career Scientists
BSA Public Policy Award

March 1, 2026
BSA Awards - General
Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant

March 15, 2026
BSA Awards - Early-Career Scientists
BSA Emerging Leader Award

BSA Awards - Mid-Career Scientists 
BSA Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award | Hermann Becker Student Field Work Grant - Paleobotanical  |  Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant 

BSA Awards - General
Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America

BSA Awards - Students
BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards

BSA Travel Awards - General
Developing Nations Travel Awards | Professional Members Travel Awards

BSA Travel Awards - Students
Botany and Beyond: PLANTS Grants | BSA Student and PostDoc Travel Awards

April 1
BSA Awards - Students
BSA Young Botanist Awards - Now Open!

BSA Travel Awards - Students - The following are now open!
Developmental & Structural Section Student Travel Awards  |  Ecological Section Student Travel Awards  |  Economic Botany Section Student Travel and Presentation Awards  |  Genetics and Genomics Section Student Travel Awards  |  Historical Section Student Travel Awards  |  Pteridological Section & American Fern Society Student Travel Awards  |  Systematics Section Student Travel Awards  |  Vernon I. Cheadle Student Travel Awards

April 13
BSA Awards - General
Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award - Now Open!
BSA Section - Student Travel Awards
Bryological and Lichenological Section Student Travel Awards

Early April
BSA Awards - General
Jeanette Siron Pelton Award

May 1
BSA Awards - General
BSA Impact Award  |  Samuel Noel Postlethwait Award - Teaching - Both Now Open!

June 5
BSA Awards - Established Scientists
AJB Synthesis Papers and Prize

Fall 2026
BSA Awards - Established Scientists
Darbaker Prize

Botanical Society of America AWARDS

Awards for ESTABLISHED SCIENTISTS:

• Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America
• Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award
• BSA Corresponding Members
• Darbaker Prize
• Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture
• Jeanette Siron Pelton Award
• Grady L. Webster and Barbara D. Webster Structural Botany Publication Award

Given by SECTIONS:

• Remy, Remy, and Winslow Award - Paleobotanical
• The Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America Award for Contributions to Paleobotany
• Samuel Noel Postlethwait Award - Teaching
• Edgar T. Wherry Award - Pteridological
• Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) Faculty and Future Faculty Conference Awards

Awards for EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS:

• AJB Synthesis Papers and Prize
• BSA Emerging Leader Award
• BSA Public Policy Award
• Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant

Given by SECTIONS:

• Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant
• Hermann Becker Student Field Work Grant - Paleobotanical
• Margaret Menzel Award - Genetics and Genomics

Awards for STUDENTS:

• AJ Harris Graduate Student Research Award
• BSA Public Policy Award
• BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
• BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards
• BSA Young Botanist Awards
• George H.M. Lawrence Memorial Award
• Vernon I. Cheadle Student Travel Awards
• TRIARCH "Botanical Images" Student Travel Award
• BSA Student and PostDoc Travel Awards
• Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology

Given by SECTIONS:
Student Presentation and Poster Awards

•      A. J. Sharp Award - ABLS/Bryological and Lichenological Section
•      Developmental & Structural Section Best Student Poster Awards
•      Ecological Section Best Student Presentation & Poster Awards
•      Emanuel D. Rudolph Award - Historical
•      Genetics and Genomics Section Poster Presentation Award
•      Isabel Cookson Award - Paleobotanical
•      Katherine Esau Award - Developmental & Structural Section
•      Li-COR Prize - Physiological and Ecophysiological
•      Maynard Moseley Award - Developmental & Structural and Paleobotanical
•      Physiological and Ecophysiological Section Best Student Presentations
•      Phytochemical Section Presentation Awards
•      Southeast Section/Association of Southeastern Biologists Student Travel/Presentation Awards

Student Travel Awards

•      Bryological and Lichenological Section Student Travel Awards
•      Developmental & Structural Section Student Travel Awards
•      Ecological Section Student Travel Awards
•      Economic Botany Section Student Travel and Presentation Awards
•      Genetics and Genomics Section Student Travel Awards
•      Physiological and Ecophysiological Section Student Travel Awards
•      Phytochemical Section Travel Awards
•      Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) Faculty and Future Faculty Conference Awards
•      Pteridological Section & American Fern Society Student Travel Awards

SPECIAL AWARDS and FUNDS

• BSA Impact Award
• Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant
• James M. and Esther N. Schopf Fund - Paleobotanical