Director: Barbara M. Goff: Loree, Room 038, 932-9266 (goff@aesop.rutgers.edu)
The George H. Cook Scholars Program is a senior-year honors thesis
program administered by the Honors Committee and available to students
who have completed a minimum of 24 credits at Rutgers by the end of
their junior year. To be eligible, students must have achieved a
cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 in the junior year or be
recommended to the honors committee by a Cook College faculty member.
This program is designed to develop and encourage interest in
scientific research or creative projects in all curricula. Interested
students should contact the program director and discuss the program
with their faculty adviser prior to preregistration for courses for the
second term of the junior year. With the adviser's help, students find
an instructor willing to aid in the definition of a project and to
supervise the work. In consultation with the honors project adviser,
students decide how many credits (from 3 to 6) to assign to each term
of the honors course. Students submit written and oral project
proposals for the approval of the Honors Committee at the end of the
junior year.
Students who successfully complete the two-term
honors course (11:015:497,498), prepare a thesis or other presentation
based on these studies, present their work at an open seminar attended
by interested faculty members and others, and maintain a satisfactory
academic record through the senior year are designated as George H.
Cook Scholars at graduation. Honors theses are kept in the permanent
collection of the Chang Science Library.
