Lakeside Lab's Essays of Abandon Scholarship
Communicate your passion about wildness and earn a scholarship at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory!
Offered in partnership between the
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Agrestal Project, and the Friends of Lakeside Lab, Inc.
Iowa Lakeside Laboratory is a premier biological field station located on the shores of Lake West Okoboji in Iowa’s prairie pothole region. Each summer Lakeside offers unique, field-based courses in plant, aquatic, prairie, insect, and general ecology; taxonomy; freshwater algae; nature photography; archaeology and other subjects. There are three summer terms, each four weeks long, as well as short courses. All courses can be taken for credit through Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa, and Drake University. For 2006 course offerings see www.lakesidelab.org
To earn $780 towards a Lakeside scholarship, communicate your interest/passion/knowledge in an essay about one or more of the following topics:
- the root causes of wild(er)ness degradation
- our population/consumption dilemma
- domestication and ecocatastrophe
- living simply and sustainably
- other aspects within the multi-faceted subject of wildness
For additional inspiration, applicants are encouraged to read Gary Snyder’s The Practice of the Wild , pages 8-11 on the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation’s Agrestal webpage at www.inhf.org/agrestalfund.htm
Original, titled, previously unpublished essays of 3000 words or less typed on numbered pages should be e-mailed by extended deadline April 15, 2008 as a MS Word attachment along with contact information and a brief bio to Jane Shuttleworth, Executive Director, Friends of Lakeside Lab, lakesidejane@yahoo.com
Essay Judges
Iowa Board of Regents and Lakeside Consortium Representatives:
Dr. Scott Cawelti, Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa.
Dr. Diana Horton, Professor of Plant Systematics and Ecology at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Tom Rosburg, Professor of Ecology and Botany at Drake University.
Dr. Whitney Sandford, Professor of Religious Studies, Iowa State University.
Friends of Lakeside Lab Representatives:
Greg Drees, Free lance journalist and writer.
Barbara Mendenhall, Former Lakeside student and Friends president.
Mary Ann Montgomery, Co-founder and co-director of the Cherokee County Prairie Coalition.
For more information, contact Jane Shuttleworth, lakesidejane@yahoo.com, (712) 337-3669, ext 7,
or c/o Iowa Lakeside Lab, 1838 HW 86, Milford Iowa 51351.
Revised 3/6/06
