In honor of former departmental professors, Dr. George Burns and Dr. Elwood Shirling, the Botany / Microbiology Department annually presents the Burns-Shirling Award. This award goes to a current junior or senior major declared in the Dept. of Botany/Microbiology who has demonstrated exemplary academic success and/or service to the department. The student will receive a certificate, a monetary gift, and have their name engraved permanently on a plaque displayed in the Botany/Microbiology Awards case.
2023 Maddy Russell
2023 Myles Steed
2022 Olivia Beauchamp
2022 Bryce Wittman
2021 Catie Babbs
2021 Makaila Weir
2020 Aidan Shumaker
2019 Malory Wolfe
2018 Mary Agnes Cranley
2017 Elizabeth Urbanski
2016 N'Toia Hawkins
2015 Marissa Witkovsky
2014 Jennifer M. Frey and Adrian J. Pekarcik
2013 Iftekhar A. Showpnil
2012 Grace E. Fecher
2011 Hanwen Bai
2010 Tina L. Graver and Morgan N. Waddles
2009 Elizabeth B. Mayers
2008 Alexander M. Paya and Lindsey A. Saum
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