Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 25, 2003|Volume 31, Number 27

Guggenheim Fellowships are
awarded to five faculty members

Five members of the Yale faculty have won Guggenheim Fellowships in recognition of their "distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment."

The Yale winners -- Martin Bresnick, Langdon Hammer, Christopher L. Miller, Subir Sachdev and David K. Skelly -- are among 184 artists, scholars and scientists in the United States and Canada selected from over 3,200 applicants for the prestigious fellowships. The fellowships are meant to further the awardees' development by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge or creation in any of the arts under the freest possible conditions.

Guggenheim Fellows are chosen on the basis of recommendations from hundreds of expert advisers to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This selection committee then makes nominations to the foundation's trustees. Appointments are ordinarily made for one year.

Bresnick, a professor (adjunct) of composition at the School of Music, will use his award to compose music. Hammer, a professor of English, will work on a biography of poet James Merrill. Miller, the Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of African American Studies and French, will pursue research on the literatures and cultures of the French-Atlantic slave trade. Sachdev, a professor of physics and applied physics, will study competing orders and criticality in quantum matter. Skelly, associate professor of ecology, will continue his research on amphibian decline and biodiversity conservation.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was established in 1925 by United States Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife as a memorial to a son who died in 1922. Since its founding, the foundation has granted more than $220 million in fellowships to over 15,200 individuals. This year's winners will receive awards totaling $6,750,000 (an average individual grant of $36,458). Previous winners include Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and eminent scientists. Among the former appointees are Ansel Adams, Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Paul Samuelson, Martha Graham, Philip Roth, Derek Walcott, James Watson and Eudora Welty.

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