Warren Abrahamson

Last updated

Warren Abrahamson
NationalityAmerican
Scientific career
FieldsBiology
Institutions Bucknell University (1973–2012)

Warren G. Abrahamson is an American biologist. He is Professor of Biology Emeritus at Bucknell University. He retired in 2012, having begun at the college as a teacher and researcher in 1973. [1]

Contents

Early life and career

Abrahamson, who was born to Warren and Alice Abrahamson, [2] graduated from the University of Michigan. [1]

In 1972, he was awarded the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. A decade later, he was awarded The Class of 1956 Lectureship Award. [1] In 1984, he was awarded the National Audubon Society's William Dutcher Award for Outstanding Service to the Audubon Cause at the Regional Level (Mid-Atlantic Region).

He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008. [1] [3]

Bucknell Greenhouse

Around 1990, Abrahamson helped design the Bucknell Biology Greenhouse during the department's relocation from the Botany Building. [4] [5] He created a self-guiding tour for the greenhouse, [6] which is located on the fourth (rooftop) floor of the Robert L. Rooke Science Center. [7] Julia Knickerbocker was the greenhouse's caretaker at the Botany Building. [8] She was succeeded by Dr. Mark Spiro, who is now Associate Professor of Biology and Bucknell Farm's director. [9] Tasha Hall has held the role since 2022. [10]

Upon Abrahamson's retirement in 2012, Dr. Chris Martine succeeded him. [11]

Personal life

Abrahamson is married to Chris, with whom he lives on Shamokin Mountain, near Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. [1] Their daughter, Jill, died in 2017, aged 44. [2]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bucknell University</span> Private college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Bucknell University is a private liberal-arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. It offers 65 majors and 70 minors in the sciences and humanities. Located just south of Lewisburg, the 445-acre (1.80 km2) campus rises above the West Branch of the Susquehanna River.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry</span> Doctoral research institution in Syracuse, New York, US

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is a public research university in Syracuse, New York, focused on the environment and natural resources. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. ESF is immediately adjacent to Syracuse University, within which it was founded, and with which it maintains a special relationship. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".

Sir Peter Crane is the current president of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and senior research scientist in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. In addition to his work in leading and developing educational and natural history organizations, including the Field Museum in Chicago and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, he has had a long career as a professor and researcher in both the U.K. and the United States. He is best known for his work on the origin and early evolution of flowering plants (angiosperms) based on studies of the plant fossil record. His popular writing includes Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot, a book that traces the evolution and cultural history of Ginkgo biloba to the present day.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Baulcombe</span> British plant scientist and geneticist

Sir David Charles Baulcombe is a British plant scientist and geneticist. As of October 2024 he was Head of Group, Gene Expression, in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and the Edward Penley Abraham Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany Emeritus at Cambridge. He held the Regius botany chair in that department from 2007 to 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gero Miesenböck</span>

Gero Andreas Miesenböckef> is an Austrian scientist. He is currently Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (CNCB) at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">American Society of Plant Taxonomists</span> Botanical organization

The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) is a botanical organization formed in 1935 to "foster, encourage, and promote education and research in the field of plant taxonomy, to include those areas and fields of study that contribute to and bear upon taxonomy and herbaria", according to its bylaws. It is incorporated in the state of Wyoming, and its office is at the University of Wyoming, Department of Botany.

The Botanical Society of America (BSA) represents professional and amateur botanists, researchers, educators and students in over 80 countries of the world. It functions as a United States nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership society.

Henry Shoemaker Conard was a leading authority on bryophytes and water lilies, as well as an early advocate of environmental preservation. From 1906 to 1955, Professor Conard worked at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. In 1954, he became the first to receive the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America, an award that has continued annually ever since.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ch. Mohan Rao</span> Indian molecular biologist

Mohan Rao Chintalagiri is an Indian molecular biologist renowned for his contributions to the fields of biophysics and molecular biology. He has earned international recognition for his work on molecular chaperones as well as his contribution to the field of photoacoustic spectroscopy in health and disease. He is currently a Senior Professor Emeritus and Head of the Department of Biological Sciences at the Hyderabad campus of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is a former director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and served as a CSIR-Distinguished Scientist. He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1999, the highest science honor in India.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kamaljit Bawa</span> Indian evolutionary ecologist and conservation biologist (1939 -)

Kamaljit Singh Bawa, FRS is an evolutionary ecologist, conservation biologist and a distinguished professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is also the founder of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE). In 2012, Bawa received the first Gunnerus Sustainability Award, the world's major international award for work on sustainability. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Sander (scientist)</span> German computational biologist

Chris Sander is a computational biologist based at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School. Previously he was chair of the Computational Biology Programme at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In 2015, he moved his lab to the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and the Cell Biology Department at Harvard Medical School.

George Hill Mathewson Lawrence was an American botanist, writer and professor of botany who helped establish the 'Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium', the Hunt Botanical Library and the Huntia journal. He was also an avid book collector, including books on the history of Rhode Island, historic books and botanical art.

<i>Quercus myrtifolia</i> Species of oak tree

Quercus myrtifolia, the myrtle oak, is a North American species of oak. It is native to the southeastern United States. It is often found in coastal areas on sandy soils.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ian A. Graham</span> British biologist (born 1963)

Ian Alexander Graham is a professor of biochemical genetics in the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) at the University of York.

Janet Franklin is an American geographer, botanist, and landscape ecologist. Her work is centered on the use of remote sensing to model and understand vegetated landscapes. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Biogeography in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California Riverside.

Warren Lambert Wagner is an American botanist, a curator of botany, and a leading expert on Onagraceae and plants of the Pacific Islands, especially plants of the Hawaiian Islands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vasanthi Jayaraman</span> Professor of molecular biology

Vasanthi Jayaraman is a professor of molecular biology in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the McGovern Medical School.

Tanisha Marie Williams is an American botanist and the founder of #BlackBotanistsWeek. Williams created the hashtag in 2020 as an initiative to promote Black botanists and to share their work and life experiences on social media. She was inspired after seeing similar initiatives for Black scientists in other fields. Williams' doctoral work focused on predicting plant adaptability to climate change, specifically plants in the Pelargonium genus in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arthur Ross Greenhouse</span> Greenhouse at Barnard College, New York City

The Arthur Ross Greenhouse is a greenhouse located on the rooftop of Milbank Hall at Barnard College, New York City. It is the third greenhouse to be built on the site since the College's founding, and houses a conservatory of approximately 650 plant species, as well as space for research in plant science and ecology.

Robert Levi Rooke was an American businessman and philanthropist, and benefactor to Bucknell University.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Warren G. Abrahamson". Bucknell University. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Remembering the life of Jill Abrahamson". obituaries.dailyitem.com. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  3. "Abrahamson, Warren". aaas.org. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
  4. "Greenhouse". www.departments.bucknell.edu. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  5. "Green house 1945". www.departments.bucknell.edu. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  6. "Self-Guiding Tour of the Biology Greenhouse". www.departments.bucknell.edu. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  7. Rooke Science Building – Virtually Anywhere
  8. "Checklist of Plants in Bucknell Greenhouse - Title". www.departments.bucknell.edu. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  9. "Mark Spiro - Associate Professor of Biology; Farm Director". www.bucknell.edu. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  10. "Tasha Hall - Greenhouse Caretaker". www.bucknell.edu. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  11. "Chris Martine - David Burpee Professor in Plant Genetics & Research". www.bucknell.edu. Retrieved August 30, 2024.