[Biology-U-L] Saturdaze: Undergraduate Research Scholarship for biological

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Scholarship amount:  $2,000 annual, awarded 15 July

Application deadline:  15 June

Application website:  http://www.sbnature.net/scholarship/index.htm

Use of scholarship award :  unrestricted

Scope of Saturdaze Scholarships:  Awarded to an undergraduate involved 
in research in natural history and majoring in a biological sciences 
major.  Research area must be within one or more of the following 
geographic areas: San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, and/or 
northern Channel Islands

Applicant field:  Applicant must be an undergraduate student at one of 
the colleges or universities within San Luis Obispo or Santa Barbara 
Counties:  Santa Barbara City College, Cuesta College, Allan Hancock, 
University of California Santa Barbara, Westmont College, Cal Poly San 
Luis Obispo

 From the Saturdaze Scholarship website . . .

Natural History is the broadest study of science and attempts to tie 
together observations of the natural world into a single interwoven 
fabric. As such, the knowledge base of natural history has grown beyond 
a single category of study and has been divided into smaller and smaller 
and more and more isolated disciplines. It is not uncommon that 
professional biologists study a single organism in a laboratory, far 
removed from its natural habitat. The Saturdaze Scholarship for Natural 
History Research supports the broader view.

Natural History is accessible to all who love and enjoy observing 
nature. In his essay on the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, as a 
naturalist, wrote that . . .

"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many 
plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various 
insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, 
and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different 
from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, 
have all been produced by laws acting around us."

Who among us has not contemplated nature and been inspired to learn 
about the connectedness within diversity? In this sense, natural history 
has attracted not only the scientist, but the artist and poet; natural 
history has become the romantic science. The romance of natural history 
stems from our desire to relate to the natural world, to regain a 
connectedness to it, and to preserve its diversity.

Saturdaze has partnered with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 
and has funded a scholarship to encourage research that helps to explain 
one or another "entangled bank". The Saturdaze Scholarship for Natural 
History Research rewards exceptional students attempting to discover 
interactions in nature. Saturdaze and the Museum share the goal of 
"inspiring a passion for the natural world".


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