Call for Submissions: Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize (2019-2020), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Description

From the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Harvard has received a fund from which to grant annual awards to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research. Mr. Hoopes was Curator of the City Art Museum in St. Louis for over twenty-five years. He was an expert on firearms, from the crossbow of the sixteenth century to modern handguns, and wrote widely in the field.

The fund provides undergraduate prizes to be given for the purpose of “promoting, improving, and enhancing the quality of education . . . in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical, or other academic subjects made part of the College curriculum under Faculty supervision and instruction, particularly by recognizing, promoting, honoring, and rewarding excellence in the work of undergraduates and their capabilities and skills in any subject, projects of research in science or the humanities, or in specific written work of the students under the instruction or supervision of the Faculty.” “An incidental objective or purpose” of the fund, as stated by Mr. Hoopes, is to “promote excellence in the art of teaching.” Awards are therefore also given to those members of the Faculty or teaching staff who have supervised and nominated the prize-winning works.

Student winners are awarded $5,000. Faculty nominators of winning projects are awarded $2,000. Written winning projects are bound and available in Lamont Library for two years.

For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Hoopes Prize, click the link.

For the 2019–2020 Hoopes Prize deadlines and instructions for faculty nominators, student nominees, and department administrators, click the links.