<p>The</a> Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2011</a> Sloan Fellows</p>
<p>Each year since 1955 the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded fellowship grants to the brightest young scientific researchers across the country. This is one of the oldest and most prestigious of scientific fellowships.</p>
<p>"These awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science." This year a total of 118 fellowships were awarded in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics.</p>
<p>MIT with its heavy focus on the sciences and Berkeley with its excellence in many fields including the sciences are the two universities that have had the most impressive showings over the years. </p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and the U. of Chicago are just behind the leaders while Columbia and UCLA come in next.</p>
<p>Sloan Fellows Since Founding of Program
(Top 25 Universities)</p>
<p>237---Berkeley
236---MIT</p>
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<p>189---Harvard
175---Princeton
168---Stanford
158---U. of Chicago</p>
<p>140---Columbia
137---UCLA
128---Cal Tech
122---Cornell
115---U. of Illinois
106---UC San Diego
105---Yale</p>
<p>96----U. of Wisconsin
89----U. of Michigan, U. of Washington
86----Penn
85----Northwestern, U. of Texas
78----SUNY
69----JHU
63----U. of Minnesota
61----NYU
59----U. of Rochester
55----Brown</p>
<p>Sloan Fellows Within the Ivy League
(Since Founding of Program)</p>
<p>189----Harvard
175----Princeton</p>
<p>140----Columbia
122----Cornell
105----Yale</p>
<p>86------Penn
55------Brown</p>
<p>16------Dartmouth</p>
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<p>This year, UC San Diego led the nation with 7 Fellows followed by Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford and WUSTL each of which had 6. The U. of Chicago followed with 5. Berkeley, Northwestern and Yale each had 4. Princeton had a slow year with 3 Fellows, a number it shared with MIT, NYU, Georgia Tech, UC Santa Barbara and Boston U.</p>
<p>Princeton's winners this year were:</p>
<p>Prof. Sylvain Chassang in Economics
Prof. Michael Freedman in Computer Science
Prof. Mala Murthy in Neuroscience</p>
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