William Anderson

William Anderson
Professor Emeritus and Curator Emeritus

U-M affiliations
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University Herbarium

College of Literature, Science and the Arts

Contact information
University of Michigan
3600 Varsity Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2228
Phone: (734) 764-2432
Fax: (734) 998-0038
Email: wra@umich.edu

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News
Anderson awarded high honor
William R. Anderson, professor emeritus of botany and curator emeritus of the University of Michigan Herbarium, was presented with the Asa Gray Award at the international Botany 2008 meetings in Vancouver, Canada in July 2008. This is the highest honor bestowed by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists for outstanding contributions to systematic botany. Anderson’s research and collaborative projects are focused on the neotropical plant family Malpighiaceae and on floristics of Latin America.