winners of 2006 Guggenheim Fellowships
Three members of the Yale faculty -- Kathryn J. Alexander, Alison P. Galvani and Noël Valis -- are among the 187 artists, scholars and scientists to receive 2006 Guggenheim Fellowships.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of "distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." This year's winners were selected from almost 3,000 applicants for awards totaling $7,500,000. Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert advisers and are approved by the Guggenheim Foundation's board of trustees.
Kathryn J. Alexander, associate professor of music composition, stretches the traditional boundaries of music by drawing upon a variety of disciplines -- including literature, the visual and plastic arts, and the sciences and technology -- to develop formal schemes both for her acoustic and technologic compositions. The result is a varied repertoire of solo, chamber and large-scale works. The composer received an inaugural project grant from the Digital Media Center for the Arts and the John McCredie Prize for Best Use of Information Technology in Teaching in Yale College, as well as a Morse Faculty Fellowship and several Griswold Awards.
Alison P. Galvani, assistant professor of epidemiology and public health, is conducting research on the public perception of influenza vaccination policies. In her work, Galvani integrates evolutionary ecology and epidemiology in order to generate predictions that could not be made by either discipline alone. She has also applied this approach to the study of HIV, SARS and Helminth parasites. Galvani, who is 30, shares with one other recipient the distinction of being the youngest Guggenheim Fellows this year. Her previous honors include a Young Investigators Prize from the American Society of Naturalists.
Noël Valis, professor of Spanish and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature and culture and comparative literature. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of modern Spanish culture. She is the author of numerous books, including "The Culture of Cursilería. Bad Taste, Kitsch and Class and Modern Spain," which won the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize in 2003. She is currently preparing a book titled "Body Sacraments: Catholicism and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative." She has also received a 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted over $247 million in fellowships to just over 16,000 individuals. Many previous Guggenheim Fellows have gone on to win Nobel, Pulitzer and other prestigious prizes. The full list of 2006 fellows can be viewed at www.gf.org.
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Alexander, Galvani and Valis . . . winners of Guggenheim Fellowships
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