University of California faculty members received more Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships than any other university. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded the prestigious fellowships to 118 young scientists, mathematicians and economists Friday (Feb. 15), with 17 going to UC researchers.

Overall, the New York-based Sloan Foundation awarded $5.9 million in fellowships to faculty members at 64 colleges and universities in the United and States and Canada who are conducting research in physics, chemistry, molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience. Fellows can use their two-year, $50,000 grants to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are most of interest to them.

The Sloan Research Fellowships, which support the work of exceptional young researchers early in their academic careers, have been awarded since 1955. Since then, 35 Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in their fields and 14 have received the Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics.

Here is a list of UC winners:

UC Berkeley
Sanjit A. Seshia, computer science
Yun S. Song, molecular biology
Noureddine El Karoui, mathematics
Feng Wang, physics
Raj Chetty, economics
Diana Bautista, neuroscience
Stefano Della Vigna, economics

UC Davis
Xi Chen, chemistry
Katherine S. Pollard, molecular biology

UC Irvine
Bill Tomlinson, computer science
Alan F. Heyduk, chemistry

UCLA
Inwon C. Kim, mathematics
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, physics

UC San Diego
Adam R. Aron, neuroscience
Congjun Wu, physics

UC San Francisco
Yuriy Kirichok, neuroscience

UC Santa Barbara
Paolo Cascini, mathematics

For a complete list of winners: www.sloan.org/programs/fellowshiplist.shtml

For more information about the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: www.sloan.org

For more information about the University of California: www.universityofcalifornia.edu