“2009 Sloan Fellowships Announced” (news item)

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<p>List</a> of 2009 Sloan Fellows</p>

<p>The 2009 Sloan Fellows have been announced. </p>

<p>These fellowships are awarded to the nation’s leading young faculty members and researchers who are the brightest rising stars in math, economics and the sciences. This year, four Princeton faculty members were awarded Sloan Fellowships in recognition of their accomplishments and future potential. </p>

<p>In the words of the Sloan Foundation, “these awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. Currently a total of 118 fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics.”</p>

<p>Nationally, Harvard and U.C. Berkeley led the nation this year, each with seven faculty members recognized. MIT followed with six. The U. of Chicago had five while Princeton, UCLA and the U. of Wisconsin at Madison each had four. </p>

<p>Princeton has a significantly smaller number of faculty members than the schools above it, making the number of its awards notable. On a per capita basis, more faculty members at Princeton have won Sloan Fellowships than at any other school in the country with the exception of Cal Tech.</p>

<p>Institutions with Two or More 2009 Sloan Fellows:</p>

<p>7—Berkeley and Harvard </p>

<p>6—MIT</p>

<p>5—U. of Chicago</p>

<p>4—Princeton, UCLA and U. of Wisconsin at Madison</p>

<p>3—Cornell and Stanford</p>

<p>2—Brown, Cal Tech, Columbia, JHU, Northwestern and U. of Washington</p>

<p>In the Ivy League, only Yale went unrepresented as Dartmouth and Penn each had one Sloan Fellow.</p>

<p>Over the history of this fellowship program, Berkeley has dominated with MIT not far behind. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, the U. of Chicago and UCLA are bunched together below them while Columbia and Cal Tech fall just behind. On a per capita basis Cal Tech is far ahead of the rest of the pack.</p>

<p>Total Number of Sloan Fellows</p>

<p>210—U.C. Berkeley
195—MIT </p>

<p>135—Stanford and UCLA
132—Harvard
127—U. of Chicago
125—Princeton </p>

<p>113—Cal Tech and Columbia </p>

<p>Total Number of Sloan Fellows Since Beginning of Awards as a Percentage of Current Full Time Faculty</p>

<p>37.2% -- Cal Tech
15.2% -- Princeton
14.3% -- MIT
14.0% -- Stanford
13.0% -- U.C. Berkeley
11.7% -- U. of Chicago
8.0% -- Columbia
7.2% -- Harvard
6.7% -- UCLA</p>

<p>Within the Ivy League</p>

<p>135—Harvard
125—Princeton
113—Columbia
76—Yale
74—Penn
50—Brown
17—Dartmouth</p>

<p>This year Princeton’s four Sloan Fellows were all in Physics.</p>

<p>Prof. William C. Jones in Physics
Prof. Bogdan Andrei Bernevig in Physics
Prof. M. Zahid Hasan in Physics
Prof. Andrew Houck in Physics</p>

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<p>[Princeton</a> University - Four awarded Sloan Research Fellowships](<a href=“Four awarded Sloan Research Fellowships”>Four awarded Sloan Research Fellowships)</p>

<p>Princeton has posted information about its 2009 Sloan Fellows. Two of them are Princeton graduates who have returned to the University to teach.</p>