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  Holt Wins Guggenheim Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Guggenheim Fellowship, established in 1925 by Senator and Mrs.
Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, furthers the development of artists and scholars by providing the funds and time necessary for their research and creative projects.
The fellowships, which are appointed for one year and adjusted according to the recipients' needs, are awarded to men and women who have shown their ability for exceptional scholarship and creativity.
www.gmu.edu /news/gazette/holtgugg.html   (315 words)

  
 College of Letters & Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mullen will use her Guggenheim Fellowship to conduct research on her American ancestors with the goal of writing a creative family history.
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 /hmullen.htm   (300 words)

  
 Immerman Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
He was recognized with this prestigious fellowship for his contributions to complexity theory, descriptive complexity, and database theory.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced that Immerman, along with three other UMass professors, was a recipient of the seventy-ninth annual competition.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
www.cs.umass.edu /csinfo/announce/guggenheim.html   (178 words)

  
 Guggenheim Fellowships Definition Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to selected individuals made for a minimum of six months and a maximum of twelve months.
Since the purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to help provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible, grants are made freely.
Guggenheim Fellowships are not scholarships, and they are not available to those who seek to complete their training either as undergraduate, graduate, or part-time students.
www.gf.org /fellow.html   (146 words)

  
 College of Letters & Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
UCLA and two other universities led the nation in receiving 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards, among the most prestigious honors presented to scholars, artists and writers, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced.
The Guggenheim Fellowship recipients for 2002 include poets, novelists, playwrights, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, choreographers, scientists and scholars in the liberal arts.
Most Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to scholars at American colleges and universities; 86 institutions received one or more fellowships.
www.college.ucla.edu /guggenheim.htm   (398 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.
The Guggenheim Fellowships will enable Galloway & Rabinowitz to focus full time on the ECI Archiving Project, which will preserve and make accessible the collection of their work, covering 25-years of interactive telecollaborative art projects.
www.ecafe.com /guggy.html   (522 words)

  
 The Rice Thresher Online
The fellowship is meant "to help provide fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible," according to the Guggenheim Foundation's Web site.
Winning the Guggenheim Fellowship allows Taylor to go to Argentina next year to continue her research on the tango and its relevance in Argentine life.
The fellowship came as a surprise to Taylor since it is not usually awarded without several years of applications.
www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/87/21Apr00/current/story10.html   (900 words)

  
 DAVIES WINS GUGGENHEIM, SENIOR FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIPS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to selected individuals for up to 12 months.
The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to help provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible.
He is also a 1999 recipient of a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Peru, where he will be a visiting professor teaching a course in plant propagation and biotechnology at the National Agrarian University La Molina in Lima, Peru, and visiting scientist conducting research at the International Potato Institute (CIP) there.
agnews.tamu.edu /dailynews/stories/HORT/May1999a.htm   (286 words)

  
 madison.com | archives: 4 Professors Awarded Fellowships
Fellowships were awarded for a total of $6.75 million; representing an average grant of $36,685, the foundation said.
A fifth Wisconsin Guggenheim winner is C.J. Hribal of Milwaukee, an associate professor of English at Marquette University who was cited for his fiction.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was established in 1925 by U.S. Sen. Simon Guggenheim and his wife, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, as a memorial to a son who died in 1922 at age 17.
madison.com /archives/read.php?ref=wsj:2003:04:17:264421:LOCAL/WISCO...   (309 words)

  
 Faculty Receive 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship Award
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recently announced its Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 1997.
Three USC faculty were among the 164 artists, scholars, and scientists chosen from a field of more than 12,800 applicants for fellowship awards totaling nearly $5 million dollars.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed for their distinguished past achievements and for "their exceptional promise for future accomplishment," according to the foundation's April 10 press release.
www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/2734.html   (134 words)

  
 UMaine Scientist Receives Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship to Evaluate the Study of Ecology
O'Connor is the second University of Maine recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was established in 1925 by United States Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife as a memorial to a son who died April 26, 1922.
Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to accomplished scholars and artists who have demonstrated a high standard of research and creativity.
www.umaine.edu /News/Archives/2001/April01/guggenheim.htm   (337 words)

  
 UCSD Social Sciences   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A scholar of Filipino culture and history, Rafael was one of only 182 artists, scholars, and scientists selected for a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship award from a field of more than 2900 applicants.
According to the foundation, Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishments.
Rafael, whose current work focuses on language and the origins of nationalism in the Philippines, is the fifth member of the UCSD Department of Communication faculty to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, and one of nine UC scholars to win the award this year.
ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /newsrel/soc/drafaelguggenheim.htm   (181 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Schauer awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Frederick Schauer, academic dean and Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government, is among a distinguished group of scholars, scientists, and artists awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Guggenheim Fellows are chosen on the basis of past achievements and their promise for future accomplishment.
Schauer was cited for his work on generalization and justice, which lays the groundwork for a research project on the benefits of generalization in decision-making.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/04.19/03-schauer.html   (216 words)

  
 Six UCLA Scholars Named Guggenheim Fellows... 5/10/2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Six UCLA faculty have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among the most prestigious honors presented to scholars, artists and writers.
The Guggenheim Foundation awards the fellowships for "unusually distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." The new fellows at UCLA are among 185 artists, scholars and scientists selected to receive awards totaling more than $6 million.
The Guggenheim fellowship recipients for 2004 include poets, novelists, playwrights, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, choreographers, scientists and scholars in the liberal arts.
newsroom.ucla.edu /page.asp?RelNum=5182&menu=fullsearchresults'   (524 words)

  
 UAlbany anthropologist receives a Guggenheim Fellowship to decipher clues to ancient languages.
Fellowship to research and co-author a book on the decipherment of epi-Olmec hieroglyphic writing.
"John Justeson’s Guggenheim Fellowship is a well-deserved recognition of his outstanding research and scholarship," said UAlbany President Karen R. Hitchcock.
The Guggenheim Fellowships are given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, founded by former United States Senator and Mrs.
www.albany.edu /main/features/2003/06-03/justeson/justeson.htm   (368 words)

  
 JMU Anthropologist Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
HARRISONBURG — Cultural anthropologist Laura A. Lewis of James Madison University has received a 12-month fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to continue her ethnographic research on race and identity in a rural community in historically fl region of Mexico.
The prestigious fellowship is one of about 200 granted annually to help scholars, artists and writers secure a block of time, free from other duties, to pursue their work.
Among the well-known recipients of past Guggenheim fellowships are filmmaker Ken Burns, playwright Sam Shepard, historians David McCullough and Shelby Foote, composer Aaron Copland, photographer Ansel Adams, choreographer Twyla Tharp and writers Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates, Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Langston Hughes and Larry McMurtry.
www.jmu.edu /mediarel/releases/2002/apr/0402guggenheim.html   (276 words)

  
 McMaster professor awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Harris, professor and associate director of the School of Geography and Geology, studies urban social geography, specifically housing, Canadian and U.S. cities in the 20th century and historical urban development in British colonies.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts.
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants made to selected individuals to help fellows work with as much creative freedom as possible.
www.mcmaster.ca /ua/opr/nms/newsreleases/2005/guggenheim.html   (339 words)

  
 WMU News - Catherine Julien earns coveted Guggenheim Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded based on past achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
The fellowships are grants, this year totaling $6,750,000, to selected individuals to help provide them with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible.
Julien will use her fellowship to study the writings of Titu Cusi Yupanqui, the son of Manco Inca, who became the ally of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro when Pizarro first arrived in the Inca capital in 1533.
www.wmich.edu /wmu/news/2003/0305/0203-358.html   (466 words)

  
 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Application for Jay Ruby
I am applying for a fellowship to support one phase of a long term ethnohistorical and ethnographic study of a middle-class Chicago suburb, Oak Park, Illinois.
If awarded, the fellowship will be used for the ethnohistorical study - an essential precursor to the ethnographic phase of the study.
With the fellowship and other funds already secured, I will be able to return to Oak Park for the summer and fall semester, 2000 to do the historical research and conduct interviews.
astro.temple.edu /~ruby/opp/guggie.html   (1746 words)

  
 MIT Sloan Professor Dazen Prelec wins Guggenheim Fellowship - MIT Sloan School of Management Newsroom
MIT Sloan Professor Drazen Prelec has been awarded a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on the interdisciplinary frontier of economics and psychology.
Prelec was one of three MIT faculty members to receive Guggenheim Fellowships for 2005.
The Guggenheim Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts (the one exception being the performing arts).
mitsloan.mit.edu /newsroom/2005-prelec.php   (476 words)

  
 News India-Times.com, Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
NEW YORK: Jhumpa Lahiri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, for her debut book, ‘Interpreter of Maladies,’ was named on April 11, one of the winners of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Awards 2002, by Joel Conarroe, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Since 1925, when the foundation was set up by Sen. Simon Guggenheim in memory of his son who had died at the age of 17, it has granted over $200 million in fellowships to over 15,000 individuals.
Conarroe said that in a time of decreased funding for individuals in the arts, humanities and sciences, the Guggenheim fellowship program has assumed an increased importance, because the foundation funds only individuals, and not institutions.
www.newsindia-times.com /2002/04/26/books_top31.html   (481 words)

  
 HUC-JIR > News & Publications > HUC-JIR News > Press Release
Earlier this year, Dr. Einbinder received two prestigious fellowships, which have allowed her to pursue research for future publications.
The first, a fellowship for the fall semester of 2004 at the Institute of Advanced Studies, School of Historical Studies, located in Princeton, New Jersey and the second, a grant from the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
The Guggenheim Fellowship program considers applications in 79 different fields from the natural sciences to the creative arts.
www.huc.edu /newspubs/pressroom/2004/4/einbinder.shtml   (301 words)

  
 Profile of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship grants for filmmakers, 4/03
The Foundation was started in 1925 by former U.S. Senator, Simon Guggenheim and his wife, Olga Hirsch Guggenheim in honor of their son who passed away three years earlier.
In fact, only about five to seven percent of applicants for a fellowship are filmmakers -- and consider that the total number of applicants to the United States and Canadian Fellowship last year was 2,845.
Another interesting note is that a Fellowship will not be awarded to those who’ve already received one in the passed from the Foundation.
www.newenglandfilm.com /news/archives/03april/guggenheim.htm   (762 words)

  
 Lafayette English Professor James Woolley Receives Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
“Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment,” said the foundation’s president, Joel Conarroe.
Woolley's Guggenheim Fellowship was awarded for "The Textual History of Jonathan Swift's Poems," a project he will undertake in 2002-03 while on sabbatical leave from Lafayette.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by former U.S. Senator and Mrs.
www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/885   (850 words)

  
 News Release 04/2003: Guggenheim fellowship awarded to University of Texas at Austin mathematician
Xin is one of 184 scientists, artists and scholars in the United States and Canada to become a 2003 Guggenheim Fellow.
More than 3,200 individuals applied for this year’s fellowships, which were given based on distinguished past achievements and exceptional promise.
Xin is being recognized for his work on wave propagation in multi-scale media, and for his more recent application of differential equations to the processing of speech and other sounds.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/03newsreleases/nr_200304/nr_guggenheim030411.html   (381 words)

  
 UI Historian Berman Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was established in 1925 by United States Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife as a memorial to a son who died in 1922.
The Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts.
The Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2004/april/041504guggenheim.html   (340 words)

  
 News Releases
The 80th annual fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation total $6.9 million and were awarded this year to 185 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from over 3,200 applicants.
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 79 different fields from the natural sciences to the creative arts (except the performing arts).
The fellowships are given on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /newsrel/science/Impagliazzo.asp   (479 words)

  
 Newsletter of the Friends of Rutgers English: Online - Carolyn Williams Wins a Guggenheim Fellowship
The English Department is pleased to congratulate Professor Carolyn Williams, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2004-2005.
The competitive Guggenheim Fellowship, given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, is awarded to established scholars and artists in support of their ongoing work.
These fellowships are particularly coveted because the funds have no set restrictions for spending them, enabling Fellows an extraordinary amount of creative freedom.
www.rci.rutgers.edu /~engweb/alumni/newsletter/spring_summer_04/williams.html   (378 words)

  
 Community Art
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was established in 1925 by United States Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife as a memorial to their son who died April 26, 1922.
The fellowships are open to advanced professionals, “men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts,” in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts.
Last year, 2000, the Foundation awarded 182 United States and Canadian Fellowships for a total of $6,345,000; the average amount of a Fellowship grant in 2000 was $34,884.
www.usm.maine.edu /mcr/currents/Apr01/cameron.htm   (631 words)

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