Previous Award Winners
Outstanding Student Contributed Paper Award
- 2011 - Emily R. Blyveis (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) - The vascular flora of the Tennessee River Gorge, Hamilton and Marion counties, Tennessee.
- 2012 - Andrea R. Benson (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) - Impacts of large mammal herbivory on Scutellaria montana Chapm. in the Tennessee Army National Guard Volunteer Training Site, Catoosa County, Georgia.
Outstanding Student Poster Award
- 2011 - Margot A. G. Wallston (University of North Carolina at Asheville) - Habitat attributes of Virginia spirea (Spirea virginiana Britton) along the Cheoah River, North Carolina.
- 2012 - Jennifer S. Stanley (North Carolina State University) - Guide to the vascular flora of Picture Creek Diabase Barrens (Granville County, North Carolina).