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The Center for Great Plains Studies is pleased to announce the establishment of the Charles E. Bessey Award for the best paper in the natural sciences published in each volume of Great Plains Research. The Leslie Hewes Award will now be presented for the best paper in the social sciences in each volume of GPR. The first winner of the Charles E. Bessey Award is "Recent Biodiversity Patterns in the Great Plains: Implications for Restoration and Management" written by Carolyn Hull Sieg, Curtís H. Flather, and Stephen McCanny in Volume 9 (2), the special issue on Great Plains grasslands. This annual award includes a cash stipend of $250. We gratefully acknowledge the donation of this cash award by the authors to help graduate students publish in Great Plains Research.
Charles E. Bessey was a world-reknown Professor of Botany at the University of Nebraska from 1884...