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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".<br>
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Scholarship amount: $2,000 and $500 annual awards<br>
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Application deadline: 15 June<br>
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Award date: 15 July<br>
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Application website:
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sbnature.net/scholarship/index.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.sbnature.net/scholarship/index.htm<br>
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</a>Use of scholarship award : unrestricted<br>
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Scope of Saturdaze Scholarships: Awarded to undergraduates 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<br>
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Applicant field: Applicant must be an undergraduate student at one
of the colleges or universities within San Luis Obispo or Santa Barbara
Counties: </font><font face="Times, Times" size="3">Santa Barbara
City College, Cuesta College, Allan Hancock, University of California
Santa Barbara, Westmont College, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo</font>
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>From the Saturdaze Scholarship website . . .<br>
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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.<br>
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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 . . .<br>
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"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." <br>
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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.<br>
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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".<br>
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