C. P. Snow Scholar Award 

The C. P. Snow Scholar Award recognizes a distinguished student who fulfill Snow’s vision of bridging the humanities and sciences in their academic and extracurricular activities. Award winners receive a $500 gift and are honored either at the C. P. Snow Lecture Series in the spring or the Dean's Award luncheon.

To be considered for the award, students must be nominated by a faculty member. Faculty are solicited for nominations early in the spring semester, with all final nominations due by Mar 27th, 2026.

Student must also meet the following criteria:  have junior or senior standing, a minimum GPA of 3.0, and a demonstrated record of interdisciplinary work in the humanities and sciences beyond coursework.  

Application Instructions for Nominated Students

STEP 1: Declaring an Intention to Submit an Application

When you are nominated for the CP Snow Scholar Award, you will be invited to submit an application. If accept, the first step is to declare your intent. Please declare your intent to submit an application within 7 days of receiving the nomination. This can be done by replying to the notification of your nomination. 

In your reply to the email, please indicate the names of two faculty. These will be the faculty providing letters of recommendation. Note: One reference should be from a faculty member in the arts or humanities. The other reference should be from a faculty member in the sciences, technology, or mathematics. For guidance on identifying these categories, this page may be helpful. 

STEP 2: Submitting the Application

Application materials should be submitted via email to RPalma@Ithaca.edu. In the subject, include the following: "CP Snow Application." Note: all materials are due by April 17th, 2026 . Late materials will not be considered. If you have questions, please feel free to contact Raul Palma.

The emailed application will consist of the following documents:

  • ATTACHED: 1000-word essay on the following two prompts: How do you integrate the humanities with the sciences in your academics and extracurriculars? On the basis of the activities you described, why is the integration of the humanities and sciences valuable?

A quick note pertaining to the letters of recommendation:

2025-2026 C.P. Snow Scholars: Lucia Moix & Payton Romance

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Lucia Moix (left); Payton Romance (right).

We're thrilled to announce that for 2025-26 we have named two C.P. Snow Scholars! Lucia Moix and Payton Romance embody C.P. Snow's missions to bridge and integrate the arts, humanities, and sciences. Congratulations to them on earning this important achievement!

Lucia Moix is a third-year chemistry major double-minoring in art history and art from San Francisco, California. Her love of art began at a young age, from the very second she held her first pencil. This love of art led her into the world of art history, where she began not just creating art but studying and analyzing it. Her passion for art and the sciences blended together after working in Prof. Mike Haaf’s lab studying the formation of metal soaps in commercial binders. This research project led her to explore the niche field of conservation sciences at the Centro Conservazione e Restauro in La Venaria, Italy. There, she witnessed the restoration of ancient Egyptian cloth and marble from Pompeii, among many other artifacts. After graduation in 2027, Lucia hopes to pursue a PhD in chemistry!

Payton Romance is a visual artist born in Arcade, NY, and is currently a fourth year Art B.A. at Ithaca College. Being a naturalist, her artmaking process often begins in the woods, the field, or the apiary, observing the world around her. As a queer, process-based artist who explores the overlap between the environment and identity, Payton revels in the laborious love of environmental creation. They work primarily in painting, printmaking, and dye making, with a focus in silk screen printing. Utilizing foraged materials, familiar natural motifs, bright colors, line, and knowledge of queer history and flagging, their work celebrates the interconnected nature between queer identity and the environment.

2024-2025 C.P. Snow Scholars: Nandini Agarwal and Jordan Rice

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Nandini Agarwal (left); Jordan Rice (right).

We're thrilled to announce that for 2024-25 we have named two C.P. Snow Scholars! Kieran Bentley and Catherine Winter Paul embody C.P. Snow's missions to bridge and integrate the arts, humanities, and sciences. Congratulations to them on earning this important achievement!

Nandini Agarwal is an Environmental Science major who finds new ways to fall in love with the world every day—whether through admiring the branching patterns of trees, cooking meals, or diving into a new book. Her work lives at the intersection of science and the humanities, where ecological research meets storytelling, systems thinking, and care. She is passionate about building just, interconnected futures and believes that asking better questions—of ecosystems, of people, and of power—is one of the most radical things we can do.

Jordan Rice was born and raised in Oakland, California. She was always curious and loved to
learn and adventure. She grew up learning about the world and its interconnectedness through
experiences hiking, camping and playing in the many public parks in the Bay Area. At the age of
11 her adventures brought her into the world of circus where has grown to be a skilled aerialist,
juggler, handbalancer and coach. In 2022 she began her journey at Ithaca College where she is
majoring in Environmental Studies with minors in Anthropology and Native American and
Indigenous Studies. She is also the co-President of ICircus, the student-led circus club on
campus. Over the past three years her professors and peers have pushed her to expand her
knowledge and build a stronger understanding of the world she lives in. After graduation in
2026, she hopes to pursue circus performance and environmental justice.

2023-2024 C.P. Snow Scholars: Kieran Bentley and Catherine Winter Paul

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Kieran Bentley (left); Catherine Winter Paul (right).

We're thrilled to announce that for 2023-24 we have named two C.P. Snow Scholars! Kieran Bentley and Catherine Winter Paul embody C.P. Snow's missions to bridge and integrate the arts, humanities, and sciences. Congratulations to them on earning this important achievement!

KIERAN BENTLEY is a Computer Science major, Animation minor, and part-time maker of various things from Napaskiak, Alaska. She began attending Ithaca in 2021, and since then has been trying to take advantage of as many unique classes and activities as possible; her favorite thus far is a toss-up between Computer Networks and Medieval Literature. In her free time, she writes music, writes code, and writes scripts for independent documentary projects. She plans to graduate in 2025, after which point anything is possible.

CATHERINE WINTER PAUL was born to a family of artists in Thousand Oaks, California, and was raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. At eight years old, she found a home at the community theatre, falling in love with the ephemeral art. At the same time, she developed a deep fascination for the cosmos, taking full advantage of the prairie’s wide night sky (and those science magazines from the gas station!) A wanderer and a bookworm, she eventually journeyed to New York in order to study theatre, picking up physics, English, and biochemistry along the way. Although these subjects may seem worlds apart, to Winter, they are all parts of a whole. In the future, she hopes to crack the code on what happens at the center of a black hole (a joke- or is it?) and encourage more artist-scientists through educational theatre.