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THE BONNER AWARD
The Academy of Scholars, Wayne State
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The Bonner Award is named in honor
of Dr. Thomas N. Bonner, past president of Wayne State University
and The Academy of Scholars. In the spirit of Dr. Bonner's commitment
to strengthening programs in arts and sciences, the prize was
established in 2000 to recognize the best recent book in English
on the theory and practices of the Liberal Arts, with special
consideration given to studies bridging the "two cultures"
of the sciences and the humanities.
The prize of $2500 is awarded in
a two-year cycle to a book published within the cycle. In Fall
of the second year, a Call for Nominations is issued with an
early December deadline. All nominations must be accompanied
by two copies of a book, forwarded to the current President of
The Academy of Scholars. The recipient of the Prize is announced
by Spring of the following year and the author(s) invited to
participate in a symposium on the book in Fall on the Wayne State
University campus.
In the competition for books published
in 2000 and 2001, the prize was awarded to The Sacred and
the Secular University, published by Princeton University
Press in 2000. Co-authors John H. Roberts and James Turner examine
the transformation that colleges and universities in the United
States underwent between the end of the Civil War and the beginning
of World War I. They identify the forces and events that dissolved
the Protestant framework of learning, with particular attention
to the role that study of sciences and of humanities played in
establishing a new secularized curriculum and the modern university.
In the competition for books published
in 2002 and 2003, the prize was awarded to J. Michael Bishop
for How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science.
Published in 2003 by Harvard University Press, the book intertwines
two strands of medical history: ongoing struggles to control
infectious diseases and efforts to find and attack causes of
cancer. Alongside this account, Bishop traces his personal evolution
from a young humanist to an ambivalent medical student, an accidental
microbiologist, and finally, along with Harold Varmus, a recipient
of the Nobel Prize for the discovery that normal genes under
certain conditions can cause cancer.
The recipient for books published
2004 and 2005 was Professor John Paul Russo from the University
of Miami. His book, The Future Without A Past: The
Humanities in a Technological World, argues that we are undergoing
a transformation at the hands of a technological society and
discusses how it has negatively impacted our educational system.
For further information, contact
the current President of the Academy, Dr. Robert, Distinguished
Professor of Law, at <rsedler@wayne.edu> or telephone at
(313) 577-3968.
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