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BULLETIN BULLETIN
SUMMER 2001
VOLUME 47

NUMBER 2
PLANT SCIENCE
ISSN 0032-0919
Editor: Marshall D. Sundberg
Department of Biological Sciences
Emporia State University
1200 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS 66801-5707
Telephone: 620-341-5605 Fax: 620-341-5607
Email: sundberm@emporia.edu
The Botanical Society of America: The Society for ALL Plant Biologists
Ethics in Science: Preparing Students for their Career ..........................................................................42
News from the Society
Botany 2001
Plenary Lecture: Dr. Gary Nabhan........................................................................................48
Symposia................................................................................................................................49
Young Botanist Awards.............................................................................................................49
The McIntosh Apple Poster......................................................................................................49
Botanical Society of America needs a new Webmaster.............................................................50
Announcements
In Memoriam
Dr. Elisabeth (Beth) E. McIver (1941-2001)........................................................................50
Personalia
University of Florida and Monsanto Honor Indra K Vasil...................................................53
New York Botanical Garden, Director, Institute of Systematic Botany,
Dennis W. Stevenson .........................................53
Symposia, Conferences, Meetings
Chicago Botanic Garden hosts Plant Conservation Conference ..........................................54
Second International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution .............................54
Position Available
Conservation Horticulturalist.................................................................................................54
Special Opportunity
David Starr Jordan Prize.........................................................................................................55
Other News
Hunt Institute Launches Databases on Website....................................................................55
Missouri Botanical Garden Establishes Center for Conservation & Sustainable
Development.......................................................56
New York Botanical Garden Scientists Probe Rain Forests of Belize..................................57
Tropical Ecology Course in Australia....................................................................................58
To the Editor.......................................................................................................................58
Book Reviews..........................................................................................................................................59
Books Received........................................................................................................................................81
BSA Logo Items......................................................................................................................................84 4 2
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Im sure that all of you are familiar with the recent
controversy concerning the intention of a few
scientists to clone a human in the near future. The
scientific community, as well as the general public,
expressed immediate and vocal concern over the
ethics of performing such a procedure. (Imagine
my surprise when I learned that one of these
scientists was an alumnus of my department -
receiving his BS here in Kansas some 30 years
ago!) Luckily such ethical dilemmas are restricted
primarily to the biomedical sciences - - or are they?
What about genetically modified crops? What
about collaborating on a manuscript? What is
scientific misconduct and what is our responsibility
if we perceive it in our lab or in another?
In this issue Dr. Lee Kass, Associate
Professor of Botany and Curator of the Elmira
College Herbarium and Adjunct Associate
Professor at the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell
University, provides some perspective on how we
might better prepare our undergraduates for the
ethical situations they might encounter in graduate
school and beyond. And yes, ethics in science also
is a concern for botanists! If youre not familiar with
our Botanical Society of America Guidelines for
Professional Ethics, enacted in 1997, you can find
them at http://botany.org/bsa/membership/
ethics.htm.
-editor
ETHICS IN SCIENCE: PREPARING STUDENTS
FOR THEIR CAREER.
INTRODUCTION
In 1932, at the 6th International Congress
of Genetics held in Ithaca New York, R. A. Emerson,
Chair of the Department of Plant Breeding at Cornell
University, gave an opening address titled The
Present Status of Maize Genetics. In his introduction
he declared I cannot refrain from noting here a very
real advantage experienced by students of maize
genetics ... I am aware of no other group of
investigators who have so freely shared with each
other not only their materials but even their
unpublished data. The present status of maize
genetics, whatever of noteworthy significance it
presents, is largely to be credited to this somewhat
unique, unselfishly cooperative spirit of the
considerable group of students of maize genetics.
In this connection I want gratefully to acknowledge
the help of many persons who have contributed
directly or indirectly to this summary statement of
the status of maize genetics.
Shortly before that conference Emerson
notified maize geneticists of his plan to establish a
Cooperation of Maize Geneticists. Soon after the
Congress Emerson and his student Marcus
Rhoades issued what is considered to be the first
Maize Genetics Cooperation News Letter
(October,1932), in which unpublished data were
freely shared among the members. Future Nobel
laureates George Beadle, Emersons student, and
Barbara McClintock, Beadles collaborator, freely
submitted their results to this communication, which
continues to be published annually. This model
laid the groundwork for a similar publication for the
Drosophila geneticists in 1933, and more recently
for the Worm Breeders Gazette, the community
newsletter of the roundworm biologists (Cohen
1995). 4 3
Editorial Committee for Volume 47
Vicki A. Funk (2001)
Department of Botany
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C. 20560
funkvicki@nmnh.si.edu
Ann E. Antlfinger (2002)
Biology Department
Univ. of Nebraska - Omaha
Omaha NE 681823
antlfinger@unomaha.edu
Norman C. Ellstrand (2003)
Department of Botany and
Plant Science
University of California
Riverside CA 92521-0124
ellstrand@ucracl.ucr.edu
James E. Mickle (2004)
Department of Botany
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7612
james_mickle@ncsu.edu
Andrew W. Douglas (2005)
Department of Biology
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
adouglas@olemiss.edu
The current discussions in the popular
and academic press concerning ethics in science
lead us as teachers to think about our role in
educating students in ethical behavior, both as
individuals and as research collaborators. Through
the years we have encouraged students to pursue
careers in science. After completing their
undergraduate work some students who do go to
graduate or professional schools write, phone or
visit and tell us stories of their disappointment with
some of the choices they made. Often this
disappointment stems from their idealistic vision of
what they expected their graduate experience to be
like. The incidents they report often concern
perceived misconduct in research, employment
practices or personal interactions; areas recently
examined by the Acadia Institutes (1994) Project
on Professional Values and Ethical Issues in the
Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers.
Some students are so disillusioned by their
experiences that they leave graduate school,
sometimes after they have completed their research
and have begun writing their dissertations. Over the
past few year