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2012 Meghan Henshaw School: Bastyr University Field of study: Is a junior at Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington. This summer she will study herbal medicine in Italy, identifying plants and integrating an understanding of their medicinal applications. Her goal is to cultivate medicinal plants for use in a medical practice. Project location: Italy |
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2012 Sarah McCracken School: College of the Atlantic Field of study: Is a junior at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME. She will apprentice at Healing Spirits Herb Farm and Education Center in Avoca, New York, where she will learn to make tinctures, salves, flower essences and teas and how to maintain established ecosystems |
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2011 Joseph Layden School: College of the Atlantic Field of study: His project will research the medicinal ethno botany of the Algonquin peoples and record the results into an accessible and comprehensive handbook. |
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2011 Hazel Stark School: College of the Atlantic Field of study: "A senior at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME, with a concentration in Ethno botany, is researching the medicinal uses of fifty-one common plants found in Maine, representing twenty-seven plant families and over thirty native plants." |
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2010 Eden Kinkaid School: Ohio University - sophomore in the Environmental and Plant Biology Department Field of study: "Eden will be a part of the Herbal Earthways Program where she will study herbalism, and receive instruction and practice in identifying, havesting, and using herbs and wild foods." |
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2009 Pamela Young School: University of Missouri - St. Louis Junior - Biology Field of study: Botany Will conduct field research on Chinese plants in Taiwan. Project location: Taiwan |
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2008 Emily Warschefsky School: Montcalm Community College Hope College Reed College Junior Field of study: "Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicine Will be taking a course in Amazonian Ethnobotany and a course that will draw on ethnobotanical, ethnopharmacological and ethnomedicinal knowledge of local shamans, herbalists, and doctors." Project location: Andes and Amazon Field School Santo Urcu Educador |
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2008 Yongjun Heo School: Swarthmore College Junior Field of study: Biology and Public Policy Researching Traditional Pemon Healing Practices Project location: "Uriman, Gran Sabana, Venezuela" |
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2008 Teresa Trego School: North America College of Botanical Medicine Certified in advanced Herbal medicine Temple University Amber Junior Field of study: Horticulture/Environmental Studies Will be developing a medicinal plant community garden in the Northern liberties section of Philadelphia. Project location: Northern Liberties Medicinal Plant Restoratin Project Philadelpha |
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2007 Brigitte Zettl School: Bastyr University A junior majoring in Herbal Sciences Field of study: Will attend the "Herbal Medicine in Itlay" field study trip which will include studying indigenous medicinal flora of Italy and traditional and current uses for regional botanicals. Project location: Italy |
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2007 Jessa Davis School: St. Lawrence University Junior in Biology/Anthropology Field of study: "Will do an ethnobotanical survey of traditional, indigenous remedies for malaria in a swamp community in Northern Kenya." Project location: Northern Kenya |
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2006 Antoinette Grove School: Bastyr University Skagit Valley College University of Maryland Field of study: Herbal Sciences |
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2006 Kimberly Sikule School: St. Lawrence University Sophomore Field of study: Medicinal Botany Will study the medicinal plant Acordus Calamus or sweetflagin Malaysia and compare her findings to studies of the same plant in North America. Project location: Malaysia |
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2005 Andrea Garcia School: Oregon State University - Corvallis Field of study: Project: "Evolution of NW Native Plants for Presence of ACE Inhibitors." Project location: Pacific Northwest |
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2005 Anna Fiskin School: "Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio MD/MA in Medical Anthropology University of Cincinnati BA" Field of study: Project: "Traditional Uses of Local Medicinal Plants in Belaries." Project location: "Belarus, Russia" |
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2004 Carl Hansen School: University of Hawaii - Manoa (Honolulu) Junior Field of study: "Botany, Ethnobotany Project: Examines activity of selected medicinal plants and their possible activity as treatments for anthrax, botulism and several forms of cancer." Project location: Hawaii |
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2004 Stephen Hodges School: "Florida International University Senior, Biology" Field of study: "Project: "Medicinal Plants of Darien-Choco Region." Will research medicinal plants used for snakebite of the common pit viper, Bothrops Asper" Project location: "Jaque, Panama" |
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