Sloan Foundation Awards Fellowships to 117 Researchers
The Chronicle Of Higher Education
March 4, 2003
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named 117 scientists and scholars as recipients of its Sloan Research Fellowships for 2003. The fellowships are awarded annually to recognize and support young scientists and scholars in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Winners receive grants of $40,000.
Following is a list of the 2003 fellows, their institutions, and the subjects of their research.
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Columbia U.: economics
Ian Agol, U. of Illinois at Chicago: mathematics
Charles A. Ahn, Yale U.: physics
Peter Andolfatto, U. of Toronto: molecular biology
Paul David Asimow, California Institute of Technology: chemistry
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: economics
Guillaume Bal, Columbia U.: mathematics
Christoher J. Bardeen, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: chemistry
Alison L. Barth, Carnegie Mellon U.: neuroscience
Greg Bashaw, U of Pennsylvania: neuroscience
Saugata Basu, Georgia Institute of Technology: mathematics
Katrin Becker, U. of Utah: physics
Andrei Beloborodov, Columbia U.: physics
Marianne Bertrand, U. of Chicago: economics
Michael Seabing Brainard, U of California at San Francisco: neuroscience
Christoph Bregler, New York U.: computer science
Kara L. Bren, U. of Rochester: chemistry
Steven E. Brenner, U. of California at Berkeley: molecular biology
Thomas C. Brunold, U. of Wisconsin at Madison: chemistry
Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology: mathematics
Moses Charikar, Princeton U.: computer science
Thomas R. Clandinin, Stanford U.: neuroscience
James Ellis Colliander, U. of Toronto: mathematics
Virginia W. Cornish, Columbia U.: chemistry
Kedar Damle, Rice U.: physics
Li Deng, Brandeis U.: chemistry
Duiliu Emanuel Daconescu, Rutgers U. at New Brunswick: physics
Pedro M. Domingos, U. of Washington at Seattle: computer science
Catherine L. Drennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: chemistry
Jeffrey C. Ely, Northwestern U.: economics
Xiaohui Fan, U. of Arizona: physics
Ronald Fedkiw, Stanford U.: computer science
Pingyun Feng, U. of California at Riverside: chemistry
Ian R. Fisher, Stanford U.: physics
Michael M. Fogler, U. of California at San Diego: physics
Wee Teck Gan, Princeton U.: mathematics
Lixin Gao, U. of Massachusetts at Amherst: computer science
Johannes E. Gehrke, Cornell U.: computer science
Jacob K. Goeree, U. of Virginia: economics
David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford U.: physics
Lisa V. Goodrich, Harvard U.: neuroscience
Theodore Goodson III, Wayne State U.: chemistry
Tom Graber, U. of California at Berkeley: mathematics
Steven S. Gubser, Princeton U.: physics
Taekjip Ha, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: physics
Christopher Hacon, U. of Utah: mathematics
Brendan Hassett, Rice U.: mathematics
Jeff Hasty, U. of California at San Diego: molecular biology
Patrick L. Holland, U. of Rochester: chemistry
Han Hong, Princeton U.: economics
Kentaro Hori, U. of Toronto: physics
Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, California Institute of Technology: chemistry
Michael Hutchings, U. of California at Berkeley: mathematics
Piotr Indyk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: computer science
Alexandru D. Ionescu, U. of Wisconsin at Madison: mathematics
Naoum P. Issa, U. of Chicago: neuroscience
Trachette L. Jackson, U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor: mathematics
Boldizsar Janko, U. of Notre Dame: physics
Hae-Young Kee, U. of Toronto: physics
Neil L. Kelleher, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: chemistry
Navin Khaneja, Harvard U.: mathematics
David B. Kirkby, U. of California at Irvine: physics
Sergey Kozmin, U. of Chicago: chemistry
Michael J. Krische, U. of Texas at Austin: chemistry
Anna Krylov, U. of Southern California: chemistry
Luis Lehner, Louisiana State U. at Baton Rouge: physics
Daniel A. Lidar, U. of Toronto: chemistry
David Ming Lin, Cornell U.: neuroscience
Todd M. Lowe, U. of California at Santa Cruz: molecular biology
Zhiqin Lu, U. of California at Irvine: mathematics
Mikhail Lukin, Harvard U.: physics
Crystal Martin, U. of California at Santa Barbara: physics
Daniele Micciancio, U. of California at San Diego: computer science
Stephen David Miller, Rutgers U. at New Brunswick: mathematics
Leonard Mirny, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: molecular biology
Pritiraj Mohanty, Boston U.: physics
Rober Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: computer science
Diana Murray, Cornell U.: molecular biology
Karim Nader, McGill University: neuroscience
George Ciprian Necula, U. of California at Berkeley: computer science
Aviv Nevo, U. of California at Berkeley: economics
Magnus Nordborg, U. of Southern California: molecular biology
Lior Pachter, U. of California at Berkeley: molecular biology
Ronald Parr, Duke U.: computer science
Jonas Christopher Peters, California Institute of Technology: chemistry
Dimitri A. Petrov, Stanford U.: molecular biology
Zoran Popovic, U. of Washington at Seattle: computer science
Alexander Postnikov, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology: mathematics
Aaron David Redish, U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities: neuroscience
David R. Reichman, Harvard U.: chemistry
Pamela Reinagel, U. of California at San Diego: neuroscience
Maribel Rios, Tufts U.:neuroscience
Dmitry M. Rudkevich, U. of Texas at Arlington: chemistry
Emmanuel Saez, U. of California at Berkeley: economics
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon U.: computer science
Martin Schmaltz, Boston U.: physics
Kristin Scott, U. of California at Berkeley: neuroscience
Eyal Seidemann, U. of Texas at Austin: neuroscience
Sylvia Serfaty, New York U.: mathematics
Athanassios G. Siapas, California Institute of Technology: neuroscience
Douglas E. Smith, U. of California at San Diego: physics
Ion Stoica, U. of California at Berkeley: computer science
Brian M. Stoltz, California Institute of Technology: chemistry
Jack Taunton, U. of California at San Francisco: chemistry
Christopher G. Tully, Princeton U.: physics
Amin M. Vahdat, Duke U.: computer science
David A. Vanden Bout, U. of Texas at Austin: chemistry
Luminitn Vese, U. of California at Los Angeles: mathematics
Vladan Vuletic, Stanford U.: physics
David Wagner, U. of California at Berkeley: computer science
Robert A. Walker, U. of Maryland at College Park: chemistry
Ing-Nang Wang, State U. of New York at Albany: molecular biology
Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia U.: mathematics
Willy Wriggers, Scripps Research Institute: molecular biology
Jun Julius Zhu, U. of Virginia: neuroscience
Yimin Zou, U. of Chicago: neuroscience
Andrzej Zuk, U. of Chicago: mathematics