Calling all Kentucky research students! KNPS will have a Student Poster Session at Wildflower Weekend 2025!

KNPS is happy to announce that we will be hosting our first student poster session at Wildflower Weekend 2025! Wildflower Weekend is a 35+ year tradition that focuses on providing high quality botanical and biodiversity educational and fellowship experiences to professionals, naturalists, and nature lovers of all ages. Wildflower Weekend will be held at Carter Caves State Resort Park in Grayson, KY from April 11th-12th, 2025.

We are looking for undergraduate, graduate and PhD students at Kentucky colleges and universities doing research in botany, biology, and other related fields in the spring of 2025!

To encourage participation of Kentucky’s higher education students, KNPS is providing scholarship opportunities for students who participate in the poster session. KNPS will pay for all poster printing and will provide a lodging and travel reimbursement for a select number of students in exchange for volunteer work.

See the PDF below for details on requirements, submissions, scholarships and more.

Abstract submissions are due HERE by February 1st, 2025 11:59PM EST.