Do you bridge science and humanities? Consider the 2006 C.P. Snow Scholar Award.
Has your student career at Ithaca College been based on a perspective that bridges science and humanities? Do you believe that sciences and humanities can and should be integrated? You may then be a candidate for the C. P. Snow Scholar Award. The award, which includes a certificate and $500, recognizes a student who has successfully combined scientific and humanistic studies at Ithaca College. Presentation of the award will be made on March 16 at the C.P. Snow Lecture of Manjul Bhargava. C.P. Snow was a British philosopher, physicist, biographer, novelist, and social critic who believed that communication among mainstream scientists, social scientists, and humanists was the greatest avenue to social progress. Each year, Ithaca College sponsors a lecture series and student award that honor this principle.
Application requirements:
1. Applications by faculty nomination or by student self-nomination
2. Student must show an interdisciplinary humanties and sciences
orientation
3. Two letters of recommendation from faculty
4. Minimum 3.0 GPA (submit transcript)
5. 1000-word essay. This should discuss how sciences and humanities
may be integrated and how you have accomplished this perspective.
Deadline: Submit applications to Michael Haaf, 363 Center for Natural Sciences (phone 4-7978, mhaaf@ithaca.edu) by Friday, March 3.
