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<td>Scholarship Opportunity for UCSB Biological Science Majors</td>
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<td>Nan Anderson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nanderson@ltsc.ucsb.edu"><nanderson@ltsc.ucsb.edu></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bayer@lifesci.ucsb.edu">bayer@lifesci.ucsb.edu</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kroes@lifesci.ucsb.edu">kroes@lifesci.ucsb.edu</a></td>
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<pre>Please share the following scholarship opportunity with students in your
departments. Questions should be referred to the agency directly at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:scholar2007@sbnature.net">scholar2007@sbnature.net</a>.
Thank you!
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Saturdaze Scholarships
Scholarship amount: $2,000 annual, awarded 15 July
Application deadline: 15 June
Application website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sbnature.net/scholarship/index.htm">http://www.sbnature.net/scholarship/index.htm</a>
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"
Questions should be referred to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:scholar2007@sbnature.net">scholar2007@sbnature.net</a>.
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