Eric Dunham is among this year's winners of Sloan Research Fellowships.
Seven members of the Stanford faculty are among the 126 U.S. and Canadian researchers to be awarded Sloan Research Fellowships for 2012. Recipients were drawn from 51 colleges.
The Stanford recipients are:
- RAN ABRAMITZKY, assistant professor of economics
- ERIC DUNHAM, assistant professor of geophysics
- PASCALINE DUPAS, assistant professor of economics and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Center Fellow
- JEFFREY HEER, assistant professor of computer science
- JURE LESKOVEC, assistant professor of computer science
- SRINIVAS RAGHU, assistant professor of physics and photon science
- XINNAN WANG, acting assistant professor of neurosurgery
According to a press release from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowships are historically awarded in seven scientific fields—chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, evolutionary and computational molecular biology, neuroscience and physics.
Administered and funded by the Sloan Foundation, the fellowships are awarded in cooperation with the scientific community. To qualify, candidates must first be nominated by their peers and are subsequently selected by an independent panel of senior scholars. Fellows receive $50,000 to be used to further their research.
Visit the Sloan Foundation webpage for more information.
