Fall Newsletter See the
Fall 2024 Newsletter for
the following:
Early Bird Hotel Reservation
Information
Call for Student Presentation
Competition - Oral and Poster
Titles
Call for Section Oral and Poster
Titles
Call for Nominations for
Student Awards
Call for Nominations for
Member Awards
NOTE:
This
year all titles and Award
Nominations are submitted
to a Qualtrics Survery
Click and submit to theSection or Session the
paper is to be presented.
A title can be submitted
to only 1 section.For example, one cannot
submit a title to a Student
Competition Section and a
Commodity Section.
Upload the title as a
properly formatted Word
document file (.doc or .dox);
then Click
the submit button (arrow).
NOTE: Only properly formatted
titles will be accepted.
NOTE: Working Group Sections
collect their own presentation
titles.Contact the Chair of
the Working Group for their
submission process.The title can be
published as an abstract, if
the title has NOT been
presented in another session.
Submission
of
all Student and Member Award
Nominations*
Upload all required
nomination forms and
associated documents. Click
the submit button (arrow).
If a required document
or file cannot be uploaded,
then contact the Chair for
instructions.
*PS we need to all thank Cheryl
Boyer for preparing the Qualtrics
surveys.
Southern
Region ASHS
The Southern
Region ASHS is a regional
scientific society of the parent
scientific society the American
Society for Horticultural
Science. The Southern Region
encompasses the 14 southern states of
Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Virginia, West
Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee. Membership varies
over the years from about 400 to 500
active members. Membership is
composed of research
scientists, teachers and
extension specialist from
Universities, State, Federal and
private research organizations, and
industry. The Southern Region also
contains a student section, the
Association of Collegiate Branch,
which is composed of student clubs
from Departments of Horticulture and
Plant Science across the region.
The main focus of the Southern Region
is the Annual Meeting, which is held
every February in conjunction with the
Southern Association of Agricultural
Scientists (SAAS). The Annual
Meeting consist of presentations of
scientific papers, student paper
competitions and judging contest,
commodity group meetings, and
awards presentations.
Goals:
Encourage and
facilitate the mutual exchange of
ideas and information concerning
horticultural research, extension,
education, and industry in the south
Promote
stronger bonds among horticulturists
in the southern regions
Encourage
participation in the national
society of the American Society for
Horticultural Science
The Southern
Region is the
strongest and most active Region of
the American Society for
Horticultural Science (ASHS). Its
history that goes back to 1920!
Join
us and become a part of the
Tradition.
