17 UC faculty win Sloan fellowships
University of California faculty members received more Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships than any other university. The foundation awarded the prestigious two-year, $50,000 fellowships to 118 young scientists, mathematicians and economists with 17 going to UC researchers.
The New York-based Sloan Foundation awarded $5.9 million in fellowships to faculty at 64 U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. The fellowships support the work of exceptional young researchers early in their academic careers.
The UC winners are UC Berkeley researchers Sanjit A. Seshia, computer science; Yun S. Song, molecular biology; Noureddine El Karoui, mathematics; Feng Wang, physics; Raj Chetty, economics; Diana Bautista, neuroscience; and Stefano Della Vigna, economics.
The UC Davis fellows are Xi Chen, chemistry, and Katherine S. Pollard, molecular biology. UC Irvine fellows are Bill Tomlinson, computer science, and Alan F. Heyduk, chemistry; from UCLA, Inwon C. Kim, mathematics, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, physics; from UC San Diego, Adam R. Aron, neuroscience, and Congjun Wu, physics; from UC San Francisco, Yuriy Kirichok, neuroscience, and from UC Santa Barbara, Paolo Cascini, mathematics.