2007/08 Hoopes Prize Information

From the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes '19, 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 16th 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 given to those members of the Faculty or teaching staff who have both supervised and nominated the prize-winning work of undergraduates.

To be considered for a prize, a student project must be nominated by a member of the teaching staff who has supervised the project. A teacher may ordinarily make only one nomination in a given year and must follow the procedures available from the Prize Office, Ground Floor, University Hall North. Students should also be aware that they will be expected to provide, at their own expense, one copy of their winning project to be preserved in the University Archives. Submissions will be accepted in the Prize Office, Ground Floor, University Hall North, by the deadline, not later than five o'clock in the afternoon. Nomination forms will be available in the spring. For further information, please contact the Prize Office.

 

Hoopes Prize Nomination Form - Print Version

Hoopes Prize Nomination Form - Interactive Online PDF

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For additional information regarding the Hoopes Prize, please call the Prize Office at (617) 495-4780 or email: fas-prizes@harvard.edu