Ethnobotany and Economic Botany Student Interest Group (Stigma)
The Yale student interest group Stigma promotes the study of people and plants by providing a network to bridge FES students whose research or personal interests touch upon ethnobotany, economic botany, traditional ecological knowledge, and the sustainable use of non-timber forest products. The objectives of Stigma are to promote knowledge exchange and broad skill building in botany amongst the FES community through events such as edible plant id hikes, the Stigma journal club, field trips, speaker events, lecture series, seed exchanges, and workshops.
Past, present and future club activities include edible plant foraging in East Rock park, plant collecting and pressing workshop, a week long Herbal Uppers series, FES seed swap, visiting speaker Dr. Chuck Peters from the Institute of Economic Botany, Synsepalum dulcificum tasting, field trip to the NYBG Herbarium, and journal club discussions of current and influential literature in economic botany and ethnobotany. Contact: ashley.duval@yale.edu