Brenda Shore

Brenda Faulkner Shore (née Slade, 30 November 1922 – 18 June 1993) was a New Zealand botanist who attained the rank of Associate Professor before she retired in 1983.

Early life and education Shore was born in Auckland on 30 November 1922 to parents the Reverend Dr William Slade and Mary Eizabeth Wilhemina Slade née Faulkner. She attended primary school in Napier, and was at school when the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake hit, and watched the school's buildings collapse. Shore attended Wellington East Girls' College from 1936–1938, and then Epsom Girls' Grammar School from 1938–1940. In 1940, Shore was awarded the Cheeseman Memorial Prize, a nationally-awarded prize for a botanical project by a secondary school pupil, for a diary project describing the bush and gardens in Pukekohe that included watercolour illustrations. Batham and Cookson delivered the Stage II and III lectures using Holloway's notes, while Shore took all the Stage I lectures and practicals, and laid out the material for senior practicals, and Ann Wylie assisted. She graduated with an M.Sc. in botany in 1949 with a thesis entitled Comparative anatomy of the cladode in New Zealand brooms, in which she was supervised by Geoff Baylis.

Shore died on 18 June 1993. Legacy When she retired in 1983, Shore arranged a scholarship, the Brenda Shore Award for Women, which is $15,000 awarded annually to support women with "passion and energy" for the natural sciences. The Shore family also established the Shore Trust, which supports botany research at the University. In 2017 Shore was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words. Selected works