Megan Mailloux worked
in the University of North Carolina Herbarium as an undergraduate.
She databased specimens of taxa listed as rare by the North
Carolina Natural Heritage Program. In collaboration with Dr.
Alan Weakley, Curator of NCU, she annotated many of our older
specimens with their current names.
Ms. Mailloux was born
in 1983 in Buncombe County, North Carolina, and graduated from
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A.
in Biology in 2005. She was the winner of the Francis
J. LeClair Award, given annually to an outstanding graduating
senior for academic excellence in biology with an emphasis in
plant sciences.
She spent one year working
for Americorps, with
the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy, then entered the University
of Georgia Masters of Landscape Architecture Program in 2006.
