BotanyRobbie Hart
2013 The Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany
Robbie Hart, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, will research the comparative ethnobotany of rhododendrons in Northwest Yunnan, China. The southern Chinese province is a center of rhododendron diversity. Two ethnic groups, one indigenous and one more recently arrived, provide traditional ecological knowledge and illustrate significant intercultural differences. Robbie is testing various assumptions based on information formulated from those considered most knowledgeable as that information is used as a plausible metric for other ethnobotanical studies.
The Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany
To protect, preserve, and expand knowledge about the medicinal use of plants, thus preventing the disappearance of plants with therapeutic potential. Providing this research opportunity for botanists can, in turn, assist medical science to develop therapies that improve the quality of life of patients and develop life-saving medicines.
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