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committee member. Due to the latter consideration, an outside reviewer 
was used to make a final decision. 
P) Student Research Awards Committee (Mac Alford) - The committee 
solicited and received submissions for the ASB Student Research Award 
and the Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning Student Research Award in 
Aquatic Biology. Mac reported that the committee received three 
submissions for the former, and one for the latter. The committee 
reviewed the submissions and agreed on the winners: Sheri Shiflett for 
the ASB Student Research Award and Madeleine Kern for the Aquatic 
Biology Award. Names of winners were provided to Ken Shull for 
production of plaques. 
Q) Membership Benefits Committee (Sarah Noble) - Sarah reported that 
there were no changes to our benefits. 
R) Committee on Bioinformatics (Zack Murrell) - Zack reported that the 
symposium titled “Workflows and Challenges in Digitization of Museum 
Specimens” 
(co-sponsored by idigBio) is this year’s highlight. 
V. Affiliate Society Reports 
A) AAAS (Tim Atkinson) - No report. 
B) AIBS (Stephanie Songer) - No report. 
C) NSCA (Alexander Krings) - Through an emphasis on advocacy and 
legislation, NSCA activities continue to benefit biological research 
collections and systematists associated with ASB in many ways. NSCA 
activities in Washington help increase visibility and funding for 
systematics research. 
D) BBB SE District 1 & 2 (Christi Magrath) - At this, our 56 th Annual 
Meeting, Tri- Beta has over 50 student presentations. Southeast District I 
and 2 have over 38 posters and 25 paper presentations. Southeast 
District 2 is the host district and Mu Epsilon/Troy University is the host 
institute. Christi Magrath is the hosting Director. Steve Coggin resigned 
as Director of Southeast District 1, and Lee Sutton from East Carolina 
University will serve as the new Director. Our Thursday field trip this year 
was to be a rafting trip but low pre-registration and the need to pre-pay 
for a minimal number of students led to cancellation. Tri-Beta is proud to 
be an affiliate organization of ASB, and we appreciate the support 
offered to students, faculty advisors, and other members. 
E) SABS (Wendy Zomlefer) - No report. 
F) BSA-SE (Zack Murrell) - Zack mentioned that a representative needs to 
be appointed to this position. Fourteen papers and five posters are being 
considered for this year’s BSA award. 
