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  00-120 (Guggenheim Fellows)
During her year as a Guggenheim fellow she will work on “Auspicious Visuality in China,” a project in which she explores visualizations of good outcomes (progeny, abundance, longevity and peace) from the third century B.C. to the 20th century.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment, according to the foundation.
This year’s fellows range in age from 26 to 80 and include writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, film makers, choreographers, physical and biological scientists, social scientists and scholars in the humanities.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/2000-01/00-120.html   (637 words)

  
  Columbia News ::: Columbia Boasts Five 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Fellows
Fellows generally use blocks of time -- from six months to a year -- to work on their creative endeavors.
The Guggenheim Fellowship is in support of his current book project, a re-examination of the Iran hostage crisis as seen a generation later.
She will use the Guggenheim award to devote more time to her research and to complete a book she is writing with Carlos Kenig, with whom she studied at the University of Chicago, titled Porous Medium Equation and Related Topics.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/04/05/guggenheim.html   (759 words)

  
 Guggenheim fellowships for 5 Indian Americans
The Guggenheim Foundation, a New York-based organisation devoted to furthering the development of scholars and artistes, has awarded a total of $7,600,000 to the winners.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
What distinguishes the Guggenheim Fellowship program from all others is the wide range in interest, age, geography, and institution of those it selects as it considers applications in 78 different fields, from the natural sciences to the creative arts.
in.rediff.com /news/2007/apr/07fellows.htm   (276 words)

  
 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922.
The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowships to professionals who have demonstrated exceptional ability by publishing a significant body of work in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the creative arts, excluding the performing arts.
The Foundation selects its Fellows on the basis of two separate competitions, one for the United States and Canada, the other for Latin America and the Caribbean.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/John_Simon_Guggenheim_Memorial_Foundation   (271 words)

  
 Guggenheim Fellowship - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes multiple awards in each of two separate competitions:
The fellows may spend the money as they see fit, as the purpose is to give fellows "blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible", but they should also be "substantially free of their regular duties".
Applicants are required to submit references as well as a CV and portfolio.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Guggenheim_Fellowship   (219 words)

  
 The Johns Hopkins Gazette: May 10, 1999
The 179 winners of Guggenheim Fellowships for 1999 were chosen from nearly 2,800 applicants--artists, playwrights, filmmakers, scientists, writers, scholars and researchers--in this 75th annual competition.
Guggenheim fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
The recommendations of the selection committee were approved by the foundation's board of trustees, which includes three new members who are past fellows--writer Joyce Carol Oates, playwright Wendy Wasserstein and composer Ellen Taafe Zwilich.
www.jhu.edu /~gazette/1999/may1099/10gugg01.html   (116 words)

  
 Ithaca College Faculty Member Receives Guggenheim Fellowship - Ithaca College News Release - Ithaca College Office of ...
Guggenheim fellowships are granted for a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 months.
There are no special conditions, and fellows may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work.
In addition to the Guggenheim fellowship, Matheson has received several awards, including an ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award for his violin concerto "Sleep." The awards are granted to composers under 30 years of age whose works are selected through a national competition.
www.ithaca.edu /media/release.php?id=31   (345 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Guggenheim Gives Fellowships for '76
Fellows have complete freedom in deciding the methodology of their research, and most of those who are teachers take leaves of absence some time during their year under the foundation program.
All fellows are required to submit a work-report to the Foundation at the end of that year.
Donald F. Turner, professor of Law and another Guggenheim fellow, said yesterday his plans center on a continuation of a treatise he is presently writing on various "subsidies of anti-trust law".
www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=274070   (443 words)

  
 Two faculty chosen to be Guggenheim Fellows
A distinguished art historian and historian of science at UW-Madison have received fellowships this spring from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Fellows are appointed by recommendations from expert advisors on the basis of distinguished past achievement and the promise of future accomplishment.
The new fellows from UW-Madison are Henry J. Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History and Afro-American Studies, and Gregg A. Mitman, professor of history of science, medical history and science and technology studies.
www.news.wisc.edu /9678.html   (366 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Columbia Faculty Boasts Five John Simon Guggenheim Fellows Among 2003 Recipients
Guggenheim Fellows utilize blocks of time -- ranging from six to twelve months -- to work freely on their respective creative endeavors.
During her Guggenheim Fellowship year, Bahrani intends to research and document Assyrian reliefs from Northern Iraq now in the collections of the British Museum in London and the Louvre Museum in Paris.
His Guggenheim project is a book tentatively entitled "The Invention of English Literature." This is a study of the institutional conditions that allowed the field of English literature to form, focusing especially on the motives and practices of sixteenth and seventeenth century English publishers, as they brought the literary achievement of the age into print.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/03/05/guggenheim_fellows.html   (979 words)

  
 Gould, Lloyd among Guggenheim Fellows
Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded to two Indiana University Blooming-ton faculty members: Jeffrey Gould, professor of history and director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Rosemary Lloyd, Rudy Professor of French.
The awards are given on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
Gould said the Guggenheim award will help him publish a book with a new perspective on the 1932 rebellion and mass repression in El Salvador involving a massacre of some 10,000 people.
homepages.indiana.edu /042602/text/fellows.html   (260 words)

  
 Five receive Guggenheim Fellowship Awards - The Harvard University Gazette
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of achievement in the past and exceptional promise for the future.
What distinguishes the Guggenheim Fellowship program from others is the wide range in interest, age, geography, and institution of those it selects as it considers applications in 78 different fields, from the natural sciences to the creative arts.
Additionally, the Guggenheim Foundation is successfully raising funds to enable the appointment of a larger number of fellows each year.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2007/04.12/13-guggenheim.html   (396 words)

  
 Pico Iyer, Mistry among Guggenheim fellows   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The new fellows include writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, choreographers, physical and biological scientists, social scientists and scholars in the humanities.
It was established by Senator Simon Guggenheim as a memorial to his son who died at 17.
The goal of my research is to decipher the processes involved in the meteorites' formation using trace element distributions in their minerals and also to determine when they were formed," she says about her work.
us.rediff.com /news/2005/apr/13fellow.htm   (558 words)

  
 People | Creative Commons
Davis Guggenheim is a director and producer of both documentary and dramatic film and television.
Guggenheim's other documentary films include Norton Simon: A Man and His Art, produced for permanent exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, and JFK and the Imprisoned Child, produced for permanent exhibition at the John F. Kennedy Library.
She is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
www.creativecommons.org /about/people   (3907 words)

  
 The Daily Princetonian - University professors win six Guggenheim Fellowships
Guggenheim Fellows receive funding to spend between six and 12 months pursuing projects they propose to the foundation.
"Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment," the Guggenheim Foundation press release said.
The Princeton fellows, who will use their grants to pursue a wide variety of projects during the next year, all said they were pleased to be chosen for the prize.
www.dailyprincetonian.com /archives/2007/04/09/news/18000.shtml   (829 words)

  
 News: UCLA Faculty-Poet Harryette Mullen Receives 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship - UCLA College   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The new Guggenheim Fellows at UCLA are among 186 artists, scholars and scientists selected to receive awards totaling $7.1 million.
Guggenheim fellowships are grants made for a minimum of six months and a maximum of 12 months.
Recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships are selected by a committee of scholars from universities and institutes nationwide.
www.college.ucla.edu /news/05/hmullen.html   (320 words)

  
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Between 1926 and 2004, 104 geographers have been selected to receive Guggenheim fellowships, and although geographers have had a record of success in securing Guggenheim fellowships since the mid-1950s, it is hoped that a greater number of qualified geographers will compete in the future.
Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
In 2005 the average award was $38,237, which typically is used for a portion of the fellow?s salary and research-related expenses.
www.aag.org /InternalUse/Store%20File/set_temp1.cfm?Art_Id=59   (175 words)

  
 University of California Office of the President
Guggenheim fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
There have been approximately 1,250 Guggenheim fellows from UC since 1930, according to the foundation.
Guggenheim fellowships are grants made for a minimum of six months and a maximum of 12 months.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu /news/2005/apr13.html   (410 words)

  
 Carl Phillips, Barbara Schaal named Guggenheim Fellows
The recipients are Carl Phillips, associate professor of English and of African and Afro-American studies, and director of the Creative Writing Program in Arts and Sciences; and Barbara A. Schaal, Ph.D., professor of biology and chair of the Department of Biology in Arts and Sciences, and professor of genetics at the School of Medicine.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
The Guggenheim award will allow Phillips some course release time to research the roles of poets in relation to their works, particularly in the light of divine visitation claimed by the ancient poets.
record.wustl.edu /archive/1997/05-15-97/6822.html   (539 words)

  
 UCR: Two UCR professors are among this year's Guggenheim Fellows   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fellows receive a stipend of about $34,000 and a year's sabbatical to pursue their research.
The Guggenheim Fellowship, now in its 77th year, is awarded on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment, according to a statement from the foundation.
Fellows include writers; painters; sculptors; photographers; physical, biological, and social scientists; and scholars in the humanities.
www.newsroom.ucr.edu /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=99&type=print   (498 words)

  
 Melrose Wins Guggenheim   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Guggenheim is not only a competition among scientists, it's a competition across the board, against artists, novelists, painters, you name it.
Guggenheim Fellows are chosen on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment, according to a Guggenheim Foundation press release.
This year's fellows were chosen from 3,162 applicants and were awarded a total of $3,925,000.
www-tech.mit.edu /V112/N22/melrose.22n.html   (581 words)

  
 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gene E. Robinson, a professor of entomology and the director of the Neuroscience Program, is one of two UI professors who are among the 184 artists, scholars, and scientists named as 2003 Guggenheim Fellows.
The Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement and exceptional promise.
Many of the Fellows hold positions at colleges and universities, and Illinois is one of 89 institutions represented by Guggenheim Fellows this year.
www.las.uiuc.edu /news/2003/03april_guggenheim.html   (96 words)

  
 2 UB Faculty Members Named 1998 Guggenheim Fellows - UB NewsCenter
Fellows are recommended by hundreds of artists, scientists and scholars approved by the foundation's board of trustees and are appointed on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
Fonoroff was a 1993 fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts and has received awards from the Jerome Foundation, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation and the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association.
A participant in numerous solo and group exhibitions and film festivals on national and international levels, she has taught at Syracuse University, the Massachusetts College of Art, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Hampshire College, Adelphi University and the University of California at San Diego before coming to UB in Fall 1997.
www.buffalo.edu /news/fast-execute.cgi/article-page.html?article=31670009   (589 words)

  
 Middlebury's John Elder awarded 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship
He was granted a split appointment in English and Environmental Studies in 1987, and has since served at various times as both director of the Environmental Studies program and chair of the English Department.
Guggenheim Fellows, according to the foundation, "are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." The 2005 fellows, who will receive awards totaling just over $7.1 million, include writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, film makers, choreographers, physical and biological scientists, social scientists, and scholars in the humanities.
More information on the Guggenheim Foundation, and a full list of 2005 Guggenheim Fellows, can be found at the foundation's web site.
www.middlebury.edu /about/newsevents/archive/2005/news632484824573135400.htm?WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublishedstu26   (383 words)

  
 Unseen-star study yields Guggenheim | www.azstarnet.com ®
A UA astronomer has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship for his push to use the soft haze of light from older stars that can't be seen individually to delve even further back into the evolution of galaxies.
In a Guggenheim list filled with writers, composers and artists, Zaritsky is the only astronomer among the 187 winners this year and the only Arizona recipient.
The 2006 Guggenheim Fellows, who will receive a total of $7.5 million, represent 78 fields and were chosen from more than 3,000 applicants.
www.azstarnet.com /metro/125024   (450 words)

  
 Electronic Cafe International - Guggenheim Fellowships
In a time of decreased funding for individuals in the arts, humanities and sciences, the Guggenheim Fellowship program has assumed a greatly increased importance and is currently raising funds to enable the appointment of a larger number of Fellows each year.
Guggenheim Fellowships are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
Fellows include writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, choreographers, physical and biological scientists, social scientists, and scholars in the humanities.
www.ecafe.com /guggy.html   (522 words)

  
 Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons professor named 2002 Guggenheim Fellow
In her capacity as a Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Charon will complete work on a book entitled "Narrative Medicine," which will probe the literary and narrative techniques through which physicians can achieve empathy for their patients--such as personal reflection, nuanced interpretation, attuned listening, and expository writing.
The Guggenheim Fellowships were established in 1925 to assist exceptionally promising professional researchers and scholars in the natural and social sciences, humanities, and creative arts--providing them with the resources to pursue academic, research, artistic, or creative endeavors freely and without economic impediment.
Many Guggenheim Fellows have gone on to world renown--as well as Nobel- and Pulitzer-Prize-winning careers--in the arts, humanities, and sciences.
www.scienceblog.com /community/older/2002/G/20021755.html   (508 words)

  
 Cornell News: 2004 Guggenheim Fellows at Cornell
Guggenheim Fellowship award decisions are based on the recommendations of hundreds of expert advisers and the approval of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's board of trustees.
The Guggenheim award will allow him to dedicate a full year to completing his critical biography of the late A.R. Ammons, Cornell's legendary bard and the university's Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry emeritus who died in 2001.
The Guggenheim award will help Mao to complete his current project: a study concerning environmental influences on the developing human being and how ideas about such influences shaped the work of several important English-language writers from "about the end of the 19th century through the middle of the 20th," he said.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/April04/Guggenheim.Fellows.04.html   (685 words)

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