AT THE GARDEN — Senior staff

Awards and Honors

IMLS National Museum and Library Service Award for outstanding community service,
2004

AABGA Award for Program Excellence, 1998

UMKC Significant Research Award, 1986, 1987, 1989

Publications

Larry DeBuhr leads the Chicago Botanic Garden's plant conservation and science program and directs the Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden. In this role, Dr. DeBuhr is instrumental in determining education and research goals and developing long-range institutional plans and strategies for the Garden. He helped create the Garden's collaboration with Northwestern University on a joint master's degree in Plant Science and Conservation, and he leads in the development of collaborative research and education programs locally, regionally and nationally. Dr. DeBuhr also negotiated the purchase of a 4,200-volume rare book and periodical collection to enlarge the Garden's Lenhardt Library.

Before joining the Garden in 2001, Dr. DeBuhr served for a decade as director of education at the Missouri Botanic Garden. There, he supervised the design, development and implementation of educational and public interpretation programs and exhibits. Prior to that, Dr. DeBuhr was employed at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where his duties included teaching, program design and implementation, research and evaluation, and grant writing.