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Saturdaze Scholars. The SBNature website subscriptions support scholarships to encourage research by students as undergraduates. 2007 Saturdaze Scholars 2006 Saturdaze Scholars Scholarship Background: Natural History is the broadest study of science and attempts to tie together observations of the natural world into a single interwoven fabric. As such, the knowledge base of natural history has grown beyond a single category of study and has been divided into smaller and smaller and more and more isolated disciplines. It is not uncommon that professional biologists study a single organism in a laboratory, far removed from its natural habitat. The Saturdaze Scholarship for Natural History Research supports the broader view. Saturdaze has partnered with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and has funded a scholarship to encourage research that helps to discover interactions in nature. Saturdaze and the Museum share the goal of "inspiring a passion for the natural world".

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Artistry & Necessity: Remarkable Women Illustrators 9 June - 3 September 2006 Saturdaze Artists highlighted in "Remarkable Women Illustrators" Exhibit Women with an interest in natural science and talent in art faced a challenge in an era when it was unusual for women to have their own careers. The Museum's Maximus Gallery summer exhibit focuses on a handful of women who defied social convention and pursued their artistic endeavors with individuality making a unique contribution to the art of scientific illustration. Learn more about the field of scientific illustration today through the current work of four local women in a special exhibit accompanying Artistry & Necessity. A diversity of media including watercolor, computer graphics and art markers are used by these artists for art and commercial illustration. Click here or image to right

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