The Wilbur Duncan Award for Outstanding Graduate Student recognizes a graduate student’s contribution to research, teaching, and service to the department. This award is the highest recognition awarded to students in Plant Biology.

Congratulations, Clayton, on this well-earned recognition! We celebrate your achievements and look forward to seeing your continued success!

Wilbur H. Duncan (1910-2005) was a faculty member and Curator of the UGA Herbarium in what was then the Botany Department for 40 years (1938-1978).  He increased the herbarium collection from 16,000 to 135,000 specimens, described 3 new plant species and published five books, three of them with his botanist wife, Marion, of 64 years and after he had officially retired.