Past Winners
Congratulations to the 2024 award winners!
Congratulations to the 2023 award winners!
Congratulations to the 2022 award winners!
CBA MAJOR AWARDS
Application deadline: before the end of January of the year in which the Award is to be presented.
The Lawson Medal
First awarded at the 1969 Annual Meeting, the Lawson Medal, the most prestigious award of the CBA/ABC, was established “to provide a collective, formal expression of the admiration and respect of botanists in Canada for excellence in the contribution of an individual to Canadian botany”.
Mary E. Elliott Award
The Mary E. Elliott Service Award is given to an individual for meritorious service to CBA/ABC.
Magister Teaching Award
The award is intended to recognize plant biologists (CBA/ABC members or not), in their mid or late career, who have demonstrated a consistently high level of teaching excellence and teaching-related activities over at least 10 years as a faculty member at a Canadian post-secondary institution, including colleges and institutes.
Awards for Students
PUBLISHED PAPER
Annual application deadline: 31 March
These awards are given to students for a paper they have published:
- Alf Erling Porsild – Laurie Consaul Award for the best paper in systematics, evolution and biodiversity. Value: $1000
- J. Stan Rowe Award for the best paper in plant ecology. Value: $500. **** Deadline extended! May 3, 2024 *****
- Taylor A. Steeves Award for the best paper in plant development, structure or morphology. Value: $500
- Luella K. Weresub Memorial Award for the best paper in fungal biology. Value: $1000
Application guidelines for student paper awards.
BEST PRESENTATIONS AT THE ANNUAL CBA-ABC MEETING
Value: $250-$500.
Application deadline: Abstract submission deadline for the annual CBA meeting
- Lionel Cinq-Mars Award for the best oral presentation by a student as a contributed paper at the CBA/ABC Annual Meeting.
- Iain and Sylvia Taylor Award for the best student poster presented at the CBA/ABC Annual Meeting.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT REGIONAL AWARDS
Value: $100
FOR TRAVEL TO PARTICIPATE AT THE ANNUAL CBA-ABC MEETING
Value: $150-500.
Application deadline: Abstract submission deadline for the annual CBA meeting
- John Macoun Travel Bursary to provide partial financial assistance for travel to the CBA/ABC Annual Meeting to a graduate student (or students) presenting a paper or a poster.
- Undergraduate Travel Award to an undergraduate student (or students) presenting a paper or a poster at the CBA/ABC Annual meeting.
FOR RESEARCH TRAVEL RELATED TO CANADA’S NORTH
Value: $1500.
Application deadline 2024: March 1
- Laurie Consaul Northern Research Scholarship award is open to all undergraduate or graduate students who will be undertaking their field research in Botany in the northern regions (north of 60o) of Canada in the upcoming field season.