Three University of Colorado at Boulder professors have been awarded Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for 2004 and another has received a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship.
The Guggenheim recipients are among 185 fellows selected from more than 3,200 applicants. The scholars, scientists and artists will receive awards totaling $6.9 million from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in its 80th annual competition.
The new CU-Boulder fellows, their titles and areas of study are: Bruce W. Holsinger, associate professor of English studying liturgical culture and vernacular writing in England, A.D. 1000 to 1550; John O'Loughlin, professor of geography and faculty research associate with the Institute of Behavioral Science studying Ukraine's new borders and geopolitics; and Veronica Vaida, professor of chemistry studying molecular properties of atmospheric organic aerosols.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishments. Scores of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize and other award winners have been past Guggenheim Fellows.
Meredith D. Betterton, assistant professor of applied mathematics, was among 116 young scientists and economists in the United States and Canada selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship. The awards, selected from more than 500 nominations made to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, were based on their exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge.
Each Sloan Research Fellow will receive $40,000 over two years to pursue the research topic of their choice. The fellowships were created to provide funding to outstanding researchers early in their careers when other support is difficult to obtain. Twenty-eight former Sloan Fellows have received Nobel Prizes.