"Guggenheim Fellows Announced" (news item)

<p>Press</a> Releases - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</p>

<p>2011</a> Fellows - United States and Canada - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</p>

<p>The Guggenheim Foundation has just announced its new class of Fellows. </p>

<p>Guggenheim Fellowships are among the most sought-after of funding programs for university faculty and individuals. They are awarded to artists, scholars of the humanities and scientists with the heaviest emphasis being in the arts and humanities. The new class of 180 Fellows was chosen from over 3,000 applicants and NYU led the nation with seven Fellows.</p>

<p>Many have the false impression that Princeton is primarily strong in the hard sciences. The Guggenheims, which are heavily directed toward the humanities and creative arts, provide evidence of the strength of those departments at Princeton</p>

<p>This year, two Princeton faculty members were named Fellows along with a lecturer in studio arts.</p>

<p>Ms. Ann Agee, Artist, Brooklyn, New York, and Visiting Lecturer in Studio Art, Princeton University: Fine arts.</p>

<p>Mr. Michael Gordin, Professor of History, Princeton University: Scientific babel: communication and identity in Western chemistry since the fall of Latin.</p>

<p>Mr. Michael Gordin, Professor of History, Princeton University: Scientific babel: communication and identity in Western chemistry since the fall of Latin.</p>

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<p>Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded Over the Last Four Years
(Institutions with 10 or more Fellows)</p>

<p>24---Princeton
21---Columbia
18---Harvard, U. of Michigan
16---Berkeley, UCLA
15---NYU
12---UNC, Yale
11---CUNY
10---U. of Chicago</p>

<p>Note that the four year time frame is simply a matter of convenience since I have those numbers. If someone were interested in compiling the information for a longer period of time it would be appreciated. Other schools of interest to CC'ers are Penn (9 Fellows), MIT (8 Fellows), Stanford (6 Fellows), Cornell (4 Fellows) and Brown (3 Fellows).</p>

<p>My, it’s certainly clear that I could never be a Princeton professor!</p>

<p>An alert CC’er has pointed out that in my comments above, I repeated the name of one Guggenheim Fellow and left out the other.</p>

<p>Here is Princeton’s other winner:</p>

<p>Mr. Simon Morrison, Professor of Music, Princeton University: The secret archive of Prokofiev.</p>

<p>The Music, History and Fine Art departments are all three represented here.</p>

<p>(Wildwood11, thank you for pointing out my error.)</p>