4 UCLA scholars win 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships
By Meg Sullivan
April 10, 2009
Three UCLA professors and a visiting scientist are among 180 artists, scholars and scientists chosen from nearly 3,000 applicants to receive 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships.
Selected on the basis of "stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment," each Guggenheim fellow receives a grant to support his or her work. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has distributed more than $273 million in fellowships since its establishment in 1925.
This year's UCLA recipients and the projects they will pursue as Guggenheim fellows:
Sally BlowerA professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, a biomathematician and director of the Biomedical Modeling Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, Blower will conduct work on the mathematical modeling of infectious disease.Sanford M. JacobyHoward Noble Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a professor of history and public policy, Jacoby will continue his research on how labor movements in industrial nations have attempted to shape financial markets and corporate governance.Demetri TerzopoulosThe Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Terzopoulos will work on realistic human simulation.Susan Cotts WatkinsA visiting research scientist at UCLA's California Center for Population Research and a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, Watkins will conduct research on the resources rural Malawians use to survive the AIDS epidemic.
The 2009 Guggenheim Fellows were announced April 8.
The four scholars from UCLA join a prestigious group of Guggenheim fellows from all sectors of the arts and sciences, including Ansel Adams, W.H. Auden, Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson, Wendy Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson and Eudora Welty.
UCLA is California's largest university, with an enrollment of nearly 38,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The UCLA College of Letters and Science and the university's 11 professional schools feature renowned faculty and offer more than 323 degree programs and majors. UCLA is a national and international leader in the breadth and quality of its academic, research, health care, cultural, continuing education and athletic programs. Four alumni and five faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize.
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