Andrea Appleton Recipient of the Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award

Congratulation to Andrea Appleton (Elena Kramer, Advisor) recipient of the Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology from the Botanical Society of America for her project, “Diversity and development of the intricate staminodes across Loasaceae.”

Donald R. Kaplan was a leading researcher in the area of plant form, where he sought to deduce fundamental principles from comparative developmental morphology. The Kaplan family has established an endowed fund, administered through the Botanical Society of America, to support the Ph.D. research of graduate students conducting research in plant comparative morphology.