Claim: After botanist and curator, Vicki Funk's death in 2019, the American Society of Botany (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
Evidence: In 2019 the American Society of Plant Taxonomists announced the new Vicki Funk Fund for Graduate Student Research in her honor.