ACMAP Elects a Board of Directors and Announces Its First Annual Meeting
The American Council for Medicinally Active Plants Inc. (ACMAP) officially became a non-profit corporation in the state of Florida on September 1, 2009. “The purpose of the American Council for Medicinally Active Plants (ACMAP) is to promote and foster research, education, development, production, and conservation of medicinal, aromatic and other bioactive plants useful to human health.” See details at the website: www.acmap.org
In January 2010, the organizing members elected their first Board of Directors:
| President: | Anand Yadav (Fort Valley State University, GA) |
| Vice President: | Gary Stutte (Kennedy Space Center, FL) |
| Secretary: | Fabricio Medina-Bolivar (Arkansas State University, AR) |
| Treasurer: | Carol Stiff (Kitchen Culture Kits, Inc., WI) |
| Member at Large-1: | Agnes Rimando (USDA ARS, MS) |
| Member at Large-2: | Jeff Adelberg (Clemson University, SC) |
| Member at Large-3: | Lyle Craker (University of Massachusetts, MA) |
ACMAP also announces its first annual meeting will be the week of July 18-23, 2010. This will be held at Rutgers using their facilities for the meeting rooms and permit some field trips both to medicinal plant industries and to our own field studies which should be in good viewing shape by mid-July. For the field trips, we will probably offer field studies with MAPs, a portable 500-l distillation unit, large-walk-in dryers and several studies focusing on IPM with herbs etc. We can also arrange visits at some botanical processors working with native American indigenous materials, well known herb nurseries and much more. See http://aesop.rutgers.edu/~newuseag/acmap/
Submitted by Carol Stiff and Gary Stutte
