Doctor Sarah Lewendon
Nationality: United Kingdom
Year: 2000
Subject Area: Science and Engineering
The Wingate Foundation was generous in affording me a scholarship of £9,000 for the year 2000 to support my PhD studies on “Self-incompatibility in Cosmos atrosanguineus, a rare Mexican endemic species of Compositae, that is now extinct in the wild.
The research component of my PhD was undertaken at the Jodrell Laboratory of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Wingate scholarship supported the financing of three enjoyable and productive research years at Kew Gardens and enabled me to travel to Mexico in October 2001 to attend the XV Mexican Botanical Congress, where I presented a poster of my research work and spent a further week working at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, and plant collecting in the Mexican states of Queretaro and Baja California.
In October 2005 I was awarded a PhD from the University of Greenwich for this research work.