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. She is a graduate of the University of
Georgia Masters of Landscape Architecture Program, and is currently working
for Wolf Creek Engineering,
a stream restoration firm in Weaverville, North Carolina.
