<p><a href="http://www.sloan.org/report/2004/research_fellowships.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.sloan.org/report/2004/research_fellowships.shtml</a>
<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S14/19/16E65/index.xml?section=announcements%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S14/19/16E65/index.xml?section=announcements</a></p>
<p>The Sloan Fellowships in Science and Technology are national awards for young researchers in the areas of economics, mathematics, physics, computer science, chemistry, molecular biology and neuroscience. The number awarded to an institution is one measure of the strength of that institution in these fields. Of course the winners are recognized for their individual achievements but their presence on a particular faculty is also an indication of the overall strength of that faculty. Successful young researchers are most likely to accept appointments at institutions with particular strengths in the fields that interest them.</p>
<p>This year, Princeton tied with Berkeley, MIT and UCLA for the second largest number of Sloan Fellowships awarded to its young researchers. Each institution had six scholars recognized. The U. of Wisconsin had the largest number with seven. Over the last eight years (representing all annual reports available on the Sloan website), Princeton faculty members have been awarded 34 such fellowships, the fourth highest total in the nation over that period of time and only one less than Harvard. What makes this particularly noteworthy is that Princetons faculty in the sciences is significantly smaller than those at the three institutions that are ahead of it. MIT is, of course, overwhelmingly devoted to the sciences, while Berkeley and Harvard are both much larger institutions with many more faculty members in these fields. (It should be noted that the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard is approximately the same size as that at Princeton. However, these awards include fields in the life sciences that have been awarded to Harvard researchers at its medical school. Adding in the medical school faculty creates a much larger potential pool of applicants for these awards.) On a per capita basis, Princeton easily leads the nation in the percentage of its young researchers who have won this honor.</p>
<p>2006 Sloan Fellowships: (showing Ivy League plus selected institutions)</p>
<p>7 U. of Wisconsin<br>
6 Princeton<br>
6 MIT<br>
6 Berkeley
6 UCLA<br>
4 Stanford
2 Harvard<br>
2 Columbia
2 Penn<br>
2 Yale<br>
1 Cornell<br>
1 Brown<br>
0 Dartmouth </p>
<p>Sloan Fellowships 2006 and 2005 Combined</p>
<p>11 Berkeley<br>
11 MIT<br>
9 Princeton<br>
9 UCLA<br>
9 U. of Wisconsin
6 Columbia<br>
6 Cornell
5 Harvard
5 Stanford<br>
4 Yale<br>
3 Penn<br>
1 Brown<br>
1 Dartmouth </p>
<p>Sloan Fellowships Over Last 8 Years (all years available for viewing on the Sloan website)</p>
<p>47 MIT<br>
43 Berkeley<br>
35 Harvard
34 Princeton<br>
24 Columbia<br>
24 Stanford<br>
22 UCLA<br>
22 Yale<br>
20 U. of Wisconsin
19 Cornell
19 Penn<br>
7 Brown<br>
3 Dartmouth</p>