<p>List</a> of 2009 Fellows - United States and Canada - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</p>
<p>Princeton</a> University - Six receive Guggenheim Fellowships</p>
<p>"Edward Hirsch, the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, announced today that in its eighty-fifth 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 almost 3,000 applicants.</p>
<p>Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment. One of the hallmarks of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is the diversity of its Fellows.</p>
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<p>Nationally, Princeton had the second largest number of Guggenheims this year with six faculty members receiving the prestigious award. Princeton shared second place with Johns Hopkins. Columbia led the nation with seven faculty members honored. </p>
<p>Many have the false impression that Princeton is primarily strong in the 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 the University's relatively small size, these numbers are even more impressive. Last year Princeton also had the second largest number in the country.</p>
<p>2009 Guggenheim Awards</p>
<p>7—Columbia
6—Princeton, JHU
5—Harvard, UNC Chapel Hill, UVA
4—Penn, California Institute of the Arts, Rutgers, Berkeley
3—Art Institute of Chicago, NYU, U. of Illinois Urbana, U. of Maryland, UCLA</p>
<p>The Ivy League was also represented by two faculty members at Yale and one each at Brown and Cornell.</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 $273 million in fellowships since its establishment in 1925.</p>
<p>The Princeton recipients and their proposed projects are:</p>
<p>• Caryl Emerson, the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and professor of Slavic languages and literatures and comparative literature, for "The Theater and Literary Essays of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky."</p>
<p>• Jianqing Fan, the Frederick L. Moore, Class of 1918, Professor in Finance and professor of operations research and financial engineering, for "Feature Selection and Statistical Learning in Ultrahigh Dimensional Space."</p>
<p>• Denis Feeney, the Giger Professor of Latin and professor of classics, for "The Invention of Roman Literature."</p>
<p>• Susan Fiske, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, for "Envy and Scorn: How Power Divides Us."</p>
<p>• Steven Gubser, professor of physics, for "String Theory and Strongly Coupled Phenomena."</p>
<p>• Muhammad Zaman, the Robert H. Niehaus '77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion, for "Islam in Pakistan."</p>