The Southern Nursery Association ( SNA ) has herald a new programme design to provide financial aid through travel reimbursements to students represent in the Bryson L. James Student Research Competition at the 2020 SNA Research Conference . The SNA Research Conference will be held at the same time with The SNA Conference on January 6 and 7 , 2020 , at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore , Maryland , two Day before the opening of MANTS , January 8 - 10 . This location also take into account scholarly person exposure to one of the largest horticultural trade shows in the country .
The student competition provide an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate student to deliver their a la mode inquiry results , hone their communication skills and compete for cash award . These student historically demonstrate unassailable academic and research power and move forrad in the industry to make striking contribution . The competition is named for Dr. Bryson L. James who not only served as Director of Horticultural Research for the Southern Nursery Association , coordinator of the league and editor program of the Annual Proceedings for 37 twelvemonth but was participating in the SNA Research Conference for about 50 age . The educatee rivalry is fund by Bennett ’s Creek Nursery and Lancaster Farms . The travel Hiram Ulysses Grant program is frequent by AgiStarts , Saunders Brothers , the Horticultural Research Institute ( HRI ) , and the Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Endowment Fund . scholarly person will be reimbursed $ 300 toward costs connect to travel to and participating in this competition ( for instance airfare , gas mileage , hotel , repast ) , based upon available stock .
The SNA Research Conference , which get down in 1956 , is the state ’s long running woody ornamental enquiry conference and has become world - renowned for quality research . participant are the top horticultural research and educational leaders from across the land . topic are divided into thirteen categories and shared in presentations that run about seven minute of arc each . These category include : Container Grown Plant Production , Economics and Marketing
Engineering , Structures and Innovations , Entomology , Field Production , Floriculture , Growth Regulators , Landscape , Pathology and Nematology , Plant Breeding and Evaluation , Propagation , Water Management , Weed Control . Research presented at the SNA Research Conference is bring out in the annual issue " SNA Research Conference Proceedings " usable on the SNA website atwww.sna.org . Proceedings from 1991 - 2019 are available with 3,136 titles comprised of 12,393 page .
The covering deadline is November 29 , 2019 . Student Travel Grant Applications can be downloaded from the SNA internet site under the Research and Education tablet athttps://sna.org/page-1052562 . More details of the 2020 SNA Conference , the SNA Research Conference , and the Bryson L. James Student Research Competition is available on the SNA website atwww.sna.org .
For more data : Southern Nursery AssociationPO Box 801454Acworth , GA 30101678.809.9992[email protected]www.sna.org
