<p>2010</a> Fellows - United States and Canada - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</p>
<p>Guggenheim</a> Fellowship Awards, 2010 - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</p>
<p>"Edward Hirsch, the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, announced today that in its eighty-sixth annual competition for the United States and Canada the Foundation has awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars. The successful candidates were chosen from a group of some 3,000 applicants.</p>
<p>Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of achievement and exceptional promise. . . . In all, fifty-nine disciplines and sixty-five different academic institutions are represented by this year’s Fellows. Sixty Fellows are unaffiliated or hold only adjunct or part-time positions at universities. </p>
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<p>The Guggenheim Fellowship awards for 2010, were announced today. Nationally, Princeton led the nation this year with nine faculty members receiving the prestigious award. Harvard followed with six faculty members. For the previous two years Princeton had been second in the nation.</p>
<p>Princeton's Guggenheim Fellows this year were in the departments of mathematics, economics, Near Eastern studies, visual arts, classics, physics, philosophy and psychology.</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, are a good measure of the strength of those departments at Princeton. Given Princeton's relatively small size, these numbers are even more impressive. </p>
<p>2010 Guggenheim Awards
(all institutions with 2 or more Fellows)</p>
<p>9---Princeton</p>
<p>6---Harvard
5---Berkeley, U. of Michigan, Yale
4---UCLA, UNC, UT Austin
3---CUNY, U. of Chicago, U. of Iowa
2---Bard, Binghamton, Columbia, Cornell, FSU, Northwestern, NYU, Penn State, Rutgers, School of the Visual Arts, U. of Oregon, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>The Ivy League was also represented by one faculty member at Penn.</p>
<p>Each Guggenheim Fellow, appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment, receives a grant to support his or her work. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has distributed more than $281 million in fellowships since its establishment in 1925.</p>
<p>The Princeton recipients and their proposed projects are:</p>
<p>Prof. Markus K. Brunnermeier, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics, Princeton University: Financial frictions and the macroeconomy.</p>
<p>Prof. Ingrid Daubechies, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University: Mathematical modeling for the Madagascar rain forest.</p>
<p>Prof. Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Professor of Economics, Princeton University; Coeditor, American Economic Review: Estimating the impact of trade on productivity and growth using firm-level data and trade-reform episodes.</p>
<p>Prof. Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University: A modern political history of Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Mr. Daniel A. Heyman, Artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lecturer in Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University: Fine Arts.</p>
<p>Prof. Joshua T. Katz, Professor of Classics, Princeton University: Wordplay: a chapter in the history of ideas.</p>
<p>Prof. Igor R. Klebanov, Professor of Physics and Associate Director, Center for Theoretical Physics, Princeton University: Quantum field theories as curved spacetimes</p>
<p>Prof. Philip Pettit, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University: A civic republican theory of democracy.</p>
<p>Prof. Alexander Todorov, Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University: The influence of first impressions on decisions.</p>