Department of Botany/Microbiology

Burns-Shirling Award for Outstanding Achievement

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Each year in honor of former departmental professors, Dr. George Burns and Dr. Elwood Shirling, the Botany / Microbiology Department presents the Burns-Shirling Award. The award goes to a current junior or senior Botany/Microbiology major, who has demonstrated exemplary academic success and/or service to the department. In addition to having his/her name engraved permanently on the award plaque, the student selected receives a certificate and a monetary gift.

George S. Hamaoui, Jr., 2007 Burns-Shirling Award winner, after receiving award at the Botany & Microbiology spring picnic.

Burns-Shirling Award Winners

2007 George S. Hamaoui, Jr.
2006 Amanda Robinson and Christina Vorobej
2005 Student Board Officers
2004 Patricia B. S. Celestino
2003 Susan L. Schifer
2002 Beth Ann Browne
2001 Priscilla A. McDowell
2000 Jessica M. Mann
1999 Jessica A. Hankinson
1998 Jarrod T. Bruce
1997 Kathleen A. Peterson
1996 Peter M. Yarchak
1995 Michelle A. Bixler
1994 Andrew C. Cooper
1993 Chanda A. Ewing
1992 Eglantina Lucio-Zavaleta
1991 Eileen L. Seeholzer and Ann M. Kneipp
1990 Eileen L. Seeholzer
1989 Susan C. Funderburg
1988 Marie Y. Hu
1987 David A. Mangus
1986 Steven C. Peiffer
1985 Kimberly A. Barker
1984 John J. Casino
1983 Charles L. Stinemetz
1982 Robert. W. Gensemer
1981 Peter A. Holthe
1980 James A. Cameron

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