The Cannon-Herskovic Israel research Scholarship

The Cannon-Herskovic Israel Research Scholarship

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    The expressed purpose for the Cannon-Herskovic Israel research Scholarship is to crate, via its support for academic research, ongoing shared intellectual opportunities between Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) and the State of Israel's academic, cultural, scientific, security, and medical communities.

    The award is open to an undergraduate student enrolled in the Honors Program at Northeastern Illinois University who is currently working on his/her Honors thesis or a graduate student enrolled in Northeastern Illinois University who is currently working on his/her Masters thesis.  The subject of the Honors or Masters thesis shall be focused on research areas of relevance to the State of Israel and/or Zionism, and may address any aspect appropriate to the student's field of academic expertise.  Preference will be given to research endeavors that promote exchanges in research between NEIU and Israeli institutions.  Research proposals that involve interdisciplinary cooperation will be granted special consideration. The research conducted with the support of this scholarship must be structured in an academically rigorous, balanced, and constructive scholarly manner.

    This year, the first Cannon-Herskovic Israel Research Scholarship was awarded to Major John Michael Vosnos who is a political science graduate student at Northeastern Illinois University.  He will be using the scholarship to write his Masters Thesis which will be a Comparative Study of Israeli and American Disaster-Terrorist Management Cultures Promoting Civiilan Preparedness. The award will take him to Israel in February to do research.