<p>2010</a> Alfred P. Sloan Fellows</p>
<p>The 2010 Sloan Fellows have been announced. </p>
<p>These prestigious 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. </p>
<p>Princeton and Harvard led the nation this year with seven Fellows each. Berekely had six Fellows. Six other universities including Columbia, MIT, Penn, Stanford, UCLA and the U. of Toronto had five Fellows each.</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>Princeton has a significantly smaller number of faculty members than most of the other schools, making the number of its awards notable. On a per capita basis, more Princeton faculty members have won Sloan Fellowships than at any other school in the country with the exception of Cal Tech.</p>
<p>Institutions with Three or More 2010 Sloan Fellows:</p>
<p>7—Princeton and Harvard
6—Berkeley
5—Columbia, MIT, Penn, Stanford, UCLA and U. of Toronto</p>
<p>3—Rice, U. of Washington, Yale</p>
<p>In the Ivy League, only Dartmouth went unrepresented while Cornell had two and Brown 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.</p>
<p>Total Number of Sloan Fellows</p>
<p>216—U.C. Berkeley
200—MIT </p>
<p>140—Stanford and UCLA
139—Harvard
132—Princeton
129—U. of Chicago</p>
<p>118—Columbia
115—Cal Tech </p>
<p>Within the Ivy League</p>
<p>142—Harvard
132—Princeton
118—Columbia</p>
<p>79—Penn, Yale
51—Brown
17—Dartmouth</p>
<p>This year Princeton’s Seven Sloan Fellows were in a variety of fields--two in the life sciences, two in physics and one each in computer science, economics and mathematics.</p>
<p>David M. Blei in Computer Science
Christopher P. Herzog in Physics
Adam C. Maloof in Physics
Celeste M. Nelson in Molecular Biology
Yael Niv in Neuroscience
Yuliy V. Sannikov in Economics
Amit Singer in Mathematics</p>