After botanist and curator, Vicki Funk's death in 2019, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (a Wyoming corporaton formed to foster, encourage, and promote education and research into the field of plant taxonomy) announced a Vicki Funk Fund for Graduate Student Research in her honor;.
Vicki Ann Funk (November 26, 1947  October 22, 2019) was a Senior Research Botanist and Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, known for her work on members of the composite family (Asteraceae) including collecting plants in many parts of the world, as well as her synthetic work on phylogenetics and biogeography. October 22, 2019(2019-10-22) (aged 71) In 2019 the American Society of Plant Taxonomists announced the new Vicki Funk Fund for Graduate Student Research in her honor. It is incorporated in the state of Wyoming, and its office is at the University of Wyoming, Department of Botany. The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) is a botanical organization formed in 1935 to "foster, encourage, and promote education and research in the field of plant taxonomy, to include those areas and fields of study that contribute to and bear upon taxonomy and herbaria", according to its bylaws. 
