Student Research Grants Program

Each year, the Davis Botanical Society (DBS) awards research grants to graduate and undergraduate students at UC Davis to help defray the expenses of independent study or other research projects. The student projects are field-oriented and related to plant taxonomy or plant evolutionary biology and ecology.  Davis Botanical Society Student Grants Program fund link.

A core function of DBS is to create a community supporting, and interacting with, the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity herbarium and the UC Davis Conservatory. Consequently, each year, the we award a number of research grants to UC Davis graduate and undergraduate students to carry out work that aligns with the broad goals of the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity herbarium and/or the UC Davis Conservatory.

Topics include:

1. field-oriented botany projects in taxonomy, systematics, conservation, evolutionary biology, ecology, and/or floristics of plants in California or globally; or
2. research projects related to the cultivation and propagation of succulents or maintenance of living diversity collections.

These are funded by the Davis Botanical Society membership funds, the Larry Mitich Endowment and the Jack Major Endowment. Please consider supporting future grants:   Davis Botanical Society Student Grants Program

Criteria:

The grants are evaluated based upon the fit of the student’s proposed research with the goals of DBS and the individual endowments, the student’s qualifications, the appropriateness of their budget, and the letter of support from their Major Professor.

Protocol:

Application materials (except the letter of recommendation) must be submitted electronically as a single PDF document titled with the Applicant’s Last Name and DBS Proposal 2025 by 5:00 PM Monday, March 3, 2025. Please send to the chair of the Davis Botanical Society Student Grants Committee, Jen Funk, as an e-mail attachment to funk@ucdavis.edu Applicants will be notified if they are a grant recipient by early April. Davis Botanical Society Research Grant Application Guidelines for 2025

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