Fellowships last week, marking a higher number of awards than at any other
university. At UCSD, neuroscience researcher Adam R. Aron and physics
researcher Congjun Wu were awarded the grants.
Overall, the Sloan Foundation’s $5.9 million in fellowships
went to faculty members at 64 colleges and universities in the
and
Recipients were honored for their research in physics, chemistry, molecular
biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience. Fellows may
use their two-year $50,000 awards for the lines of inquiry of their choice.
Since 1995, Sloan Research Fellowships have supported the work of outstanding
young researchers early in their academic careers. Thirty-five recipients have
gone on to claim the Nobel Prize in their fields and 14 have received the
Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics.
