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Guggenheims awarded to three University of Minnesota faculty
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 4/14/2008 ) -- Three faculty members at the University of Minnesota have received 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships in the 84th annual U.S. and Canadian competition sponsored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This is the first time since 1980 that University of Minnesota faculty have won multiple Guggenheim Awards in consecutive years (university faculty won four Guggenheim Fellowships last year). The 2008 Guggenheim Fellows from the university's College of Liberal Arts (CLA) are Kathryn Sikkink, a professor in the department of political science, and Robin Stryker, a professor in the department of sociology. The third Fellow is Douglas Arnold, a professor in the Institute of Technology's (IT) School of Mathematics. They received funding based on distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. "Kathryn Sikkink, Robin Stryker and Douglas Arnold are three of our very finest scholars. They amply deserve the important national recognition of a Guggenheim Fellowship for their wide-ranging and extraordinary achievements. The three awards underscore the remarkable breadth and depth of faculty at the University of Minnesota. On behalf of the university I congratulate each," said Thomas Sullivan, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. Kathryn Sikkink, a Regents Professor and a McKnight Distinguished University Professor, was heralded by the Guggenheim Foundation for her work on the origins and effects of human rights trials in the world. Her research also includes U. S. human rights policy; women's rights; transnational advocacy networks; social justice; political activism; Latin America politics; grassroots politics; war crimes tribunals; and international human rights norms and law. She is author of "Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms;" "Activists Beyond Borders;" "Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina;" and "Mixed Messages: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America." Robin Stryker was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of her work in social science in government regulation of equal employment opportunity. In general, Stryker's areas of focus include law and society, political sociology, economic sociology, comparative and historical sociology, theory, stratification, historical methods and culture. She is the author of "Social Science in Government Regulation of Equal Employment Opportunity," which was funded by the National Science Foundation, and nine other recent publications, including "Half Empty, Half Full or Neither;" "Law, Inequality and Social Change;" "Law and Economy," with Lauren Edelman; "The Strength of a Weak Agency: Early Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Expansion of State Capacity," with Nichol Pedriana; and "Political Culture Wars 1990s Style: The Drum Beat of Quotas in Media Framing of the Civil Rights Act of 1991," with Martha Scarpellino and Mellisa Holtzman. Douglas Arnold, is director of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). His research focuses on developing and understanding mathematical algorithms that enable the computer simulation of physical phenomena ranging from the deformation of elastic plates and shells to the collision of black holes. He is the initiator of a burgeoning new approach known as the Finite Element Exterior Calculus, which builds on sophisticated theoretical tools from pure mathematics. With the support of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he will spend the next year working on the Finite Element Exterior Calculus with collaborators in Italy and Norway. This June, Arnold will complete a seven-year term as director of the IMA and assume the position of McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor of Mathematics. He is also the president-elect of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the leading professional organization for applied mathematicians, computational scientists and engineers. The 2008 Fellowship winners include 190 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from almost 2,600 applicants for awards totaling $8,200,000. Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert advisors and are approved by the Guggenheim Foundation's board of trustees. What distinguishes the Guggenheim Fellowship program from all others is the wide range in interest, age, geography and institution of those it selects as it considers applications in 75 different fields, from the natural sciences to the creative arts. The new Fellows include writers, playwrights, painters, sculptors, photographers, film makers, choreographers, physical and biological scientists, social scientists and scholars in the humanities. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowships to professionals who have demonstrated exceptional ability by publishing a significant body of work in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts, excluding the performing arts. The full list of 2008 Fellows may be viewed at http://www.gf.org ---------- |
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