Dr. Lauren Howard, assistant professor of biology, won the 2015 Richard and Minnie Windler award, given by the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society journal, Castanea, for the best systematic botany paper published in the journal during the previous year. Dr. Howard’s article, “A Quarter-Century of Change Without Fire: The High-Elevation Pitch Pine Community on Panther Knob, Pendleton County, West Virginia,” appeared in the September 2015 issue.