Undergraduate Program
EDWARD S. ROBINSON
MEMORIAL ESSAY CONTEST
Prize or prizes up to $500 (total) depending on the quality of the
essays.
The essays will be judged by a committee of members of the K.U.
Philosophy Department and a representative of the graduate Association
of Students of Philosophy (GASP).
The contest is open to K.U. undergraduates and graduates. The essays
may be on any topic of philosophic interest. Each contestant is limited
to one entry. The contest is limited to unpublished essays and should
not exceed 25 pages.
The essays should be turned into the Philosophy Department in 3090
Wescoe Hall.
CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT: January of each year
DUE DATE: Early April of each year.
PHILIP WHITCOMB ESSAY CONTEST
All undergraduates at the University of Kansas are invited to enter
the annual Phillip Whitcomb Essay Contest. The contest honors Philip
W. Whitcomb, a native Kansan, who was a Rhodes Scholar, a distinguished
journalist, and a KU Ph.D.
Essays should be no longer than 3,000 words. Guidelines say they
should address "the relationship of knowledge, thought, and action
in public affairs and public policy." The contest committee interprets
this broadly. An essay may deal with any topic that is or should be
broad public interest. The topic might be political, literary, artistic,
intellectual, scientific, or technological. The important thing is
that the essay make plain the importance of the topic, that it be
written for a broad public, and that it deal in one fashion or another,
with the relations between knowledge, thought, and action. Appropriate
essays based on honors essays, term papers, and the like would be
welcome.
Cash Prize of $500
Prize Book
Recognition on Whitcomb Plaque
Entries due at Nunemaker Center on April 17, 2009
Further information is available from the KU Honors Program, Nunemaker
Center at 864-4225 or the KU
Honors Program website.
