Alumni & Development
About Charles Heiser
Charles B. Heiser joined the IU faculty in 1947 and spent his entire career here. Heiser was a leading authority on sunflowers and a renowned ethnobotanist. His interests included natural hybridization and its evolutionary significance, as well as the origin of domesticated plants and agriculture. He was also an expert on naranjillas, gourds, chili peppers, and totora.
Heiser was a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953. He served as president of the American Society for Plant Taxonomy, the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society for Economic Botany, and the Botanical Society of America.
Charles B. Heiser Fellowship
The Charles B. Heiser Graduate Fellowship in Plant Evolution was established in 2002. It honors Distinguished Emeritus Professor Charles Heiser, who died on June 11, 2010. The fellowship was first awarded in 2009.
Elizabeth Koziol, 2012 Heiser Fellow
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Elizabeth Koziol is truly a product of our department, having earned a B.S. in Biology from us in 2007. Now a member of Jim Bever’s research team, she is earning her Ph.D. through our Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Program. Liz’s areas of interest include restoration ecology; evolution of weedy plant populations; plant and fungal mutualisms; local adaptation; and stress tolerance of plants and fungi. She is an active member of our department, having co-organized the Eco-Lunch Discussion Group and partnering with our outreach coordinator Peggy Schultz to bring ecological outreach programs to local elementary school children. Liz has been an associate instructor for our undergraduate mycology laboratory. She also mentors undergraduate and high school students working in the Bever lab.