Bernice Schubert

Background

Bernice Giduz Schubert was born in 1913, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Education

She earned an undergraduate degree at the Massachusetts College of Agriculture (1935), and graduate degrees at Radcliffe College (M A 1937, Doctor of Philosophy 1941).

Career

Her academic career developed over 53 years as a professor and herbarium curator with Harvard University. She made many collection trips in Mexico and the United States. Doctor Schubert began her professional life working at the Grey Herbarium at Harvard.

While there, she served as assistant to Merritt Fernald in compiling his Gray"s Manual of Botany (1951) and Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America (1958).

She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1949 to work on African plants in Belgium. Upon returning to America in 1952, Schubert worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, classifying Central American species of possible medical value.

She retired from Harvard in 1984. 1949: Guggenheim Fellowship.

Achievements

• 1949: Guggenheim Fellowship.

Connections

associate:

Arnold Arboretum