The Council on Research and Creative Work at the University of Colorado at Boulder has awarded 14 faculty fellowships for the 2003-04 academic year.
"We are pleased to provide these fellowships to faculty who have demonstrated clear research objectives, who have distinguished track records and whose research shows significant potential impact," said Jerry Peterson, associate vice chancellor for research in the Graduate School, who recently announced the fellows.
The primary function of the Council on Research and Creative Work is to provide faculty with financial assistance and time from teaching responsibilities so that faculty can focus on a specific project for their research, scholarly or creative work. Faculty fellowships are awarded for a full academic year, and fellows receive full salary from their department during the time of the fellowship.
The 2003-04 faculty fellowship recipients include Deane Bowers of the environmental, population and organismic biology department; Dan Dessau, physics; Steven Epstein, history; Joseph Falke, chemistry and biochemistry; Shemin Ge, geological sciences; Martha Hanna, history; and Kelly Hurley, English.
The other fellowship recipients are James McGoodwin, anthropology; Nina Molinaro, Spanish and Portuguese; Richard Noble, chemical engineering; Rishi Raj, mechanical engineering; Andrei Rogers, Institute of Behavioral Science; Pierre Schlag, School of Law; and John Wahr, physics.
With the goal of maintaining its status as one of the nation's major research universities, CU-Boulder created the Council on Research and Creative Work in 1935 to encourage and strengthen research and creative work conducted by its faculty members.
A faculty fellowship is one of several awards funded by the council each academic year. The fellowship is a highly competitive award, and the selection is determined by the quality of the proposal, the record of the faculty member and the probability of contribution to their field and to society in general.