Dr. Keith Shawe
After completing a first
degree in Botany at Kings College London in 1983, Keith went
on to take an M.Sc. in Plant Taxonomy at Reading University
and
then a Ph.D. in Plant Taxonomy at Birkbeck College, London. He
spent two years carrying out post-doctoral research on
the biology of parasitic plants at University College London,
before joining the Natural Resources Institute in 1992 where he worked
on biodiversity assessment and medicinal plants in development projects in
Africa, Venezuela, India, Bhutan, Nepal and Belize. He has worked for the UK government,
and on projects funded by the Danish government, the World Bank and USAID
. Most recently at Rutgers University in New
Jersey, Keith acted as coordinator for a project aiding smallholder farmers in
Africa. He also lectures on topics ranging from
medicinal and aromatic plants to general conservation ecology. Since 1996 he has been jointly
responsible for organizing and running the Science of
Essential Oils course which has been held each year at Purdue
University and has now moved to Rutgers University.
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The background on this page is Magnolia grandiflora,
Magnolia. Magnolias of various kinds are used medicinally in
North America by native tribes and have been used in Chinese Traditional
Medicine for over 2000 years.