Legacy Prize for Creativity & Service
PBHA / Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 / Comments OffAre you a sophomore or junior who brings creativity and innovation to your public service efforts? Are you interested in an all-expenses-paid to Washington DC to be honored at an awards ceremony and to participate in a roundtable discussion led by Lisa Randall (Physics Professor at Harvard University, among Esquire Magazine’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century and “Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People”) along with a small group of awardees from other schools and fields? Do you know someone else who matches this description?
The FAS Committee on Public Service is now accepting nominations for the Creativity
Foundation’s Benjamin Franklin Legacy Prize for Creativity and Service. Sophomores and juniors who have demonstrated a strong commitment to public service while exemplifying creativity and innovation in their service activities are eligible for consideration. Nominations, detailing the commitment and creativity of nominees in public service in a one-page letter, should be e-mailed as an attachment to with “Franklin Creativity and Service Nomination” in the subject or delivered to Room 304 in the Phillips Brooks House. Self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged following the same guidelines. Nominations must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 20.
The Legacy Prizewinner will receive an all-expense paid trip to Washington D.C. on Friday evening, April 24, thru Saturday afternoon, April 25. Activities will include an award ceremony and reception on Friday night while lodging at the Cosmos Club and participating in a Saturday morning roundtable discussion with other Legacy prizewinners and Professor Randall. Prizewinners will also become ongoing members of the Benjamin Franklin Junto that seeks to foster ongoing creativity and communication among leaders in various disciplines.
Please contact Gene Corbin at corbin@fas.harvard.edu with any questions.
