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Five indian american researchers

honored with Prestigious

guggenheim Fellowships for 2021

Our Bureau the nature of dark energy.

New York Amarasekare’s research fo-
cuses on how the interplay be-
he John Simon Guggen- tween abiotic environmental
heim Memorial Founda- variation and biotic interactions
Ttion April 8 announced influences ecological and evolu-
184 individuals as recipients of tionary dynamics.
its prestigious 2021 Guggen- It seeks to explain patterns
heim Fellowships, which includ- of dynamics and diversity that
ed five Indian Americans. are observed in nature, and to
The nearly 200 awardees, a predict how such patterns may
group comprised of artists, writ- change under perturbations to
ers, scholars and scientists, were the abiotic and biotic environ-
chosen through a peer-review ment.
process from about 3,000 appli- Diggavi’s research interests
cants, the foundation said in a include information theory and
news release. its applications to learning, cy-
In the Natural Sciences, Fel- ber-physical systems, security
lows included Arjun Dey, as- & privacy, wireless networks,
tronomer with NSF’s National bio-informatics and neuroscience.
Optical-Infrared Astronomy The range of backgrounds,
Research Laboratory, of Tucson, fields of study, and accomplish-
Arizona, for Astronomy-Astro- ments of Guggenheim Fellows
physics; Priyanga Amarasekare, is a unique characteristic of the
professor of ecology and evo- Arjun Dey Fellowship program, the foun-
lution at the University of Cal- dation said.
ifornia, Los Angeles, Califor- investigates the cultural politics ful, but this year we know it will Created in 1925 by Senator
nia, was selected for Biology; of trauma, complicity, and Ho- be a lifeline for many of the new Simon and Olga Guggenheim
and Suhas Diggavi, professor locaust memory from postwar Fellows at a time of great hard- in memory of their son John Si-
of electrical and computer en- to contemporary France. She ship, a survival tool as well as a mon Guggenheim, the founda-
gineering at the University of examines fiction, theater, film, creative one,” Hirsch added. tion has offered fellowships to
California at Los Angeles, Cal- and contemporary theory in “The work supported by the exceptional individuals in pur-
ifornia, for Engineering. light of their strategies of com- Fellowship will help us under- suit of scholarship in any field
For the Humanities, the plicity and the dialogue they stand more deeply what we are of knowledge and creation in
foundation selected Debara- forge between different legacies enduring individually and col- any art form, under the freest
ti Sanyal, professor of French of historical violence, such as lectively, and it is an honor for possible conditions.
at the University of Califor- the Holocaust and colonialism. the Foundation to help the Fel- Since its establishment in
nia-Berkeley, Berkeley, Cali- Jain’s research interests in- lows do what they were meant 1925, the John Simon Guggen-
fornia, for European & Latin clude extra-legal forms of com- to do,” Hirsch continued. heim Memorial Foundation
American Literature; and Loch- munications, such as warning Dey, an astronomer at the has granted nearly $400 million
lann Jain, professor of anthro- signs and medical apologies; National Optical Astronomy in Fellowships to over 18,000
pology at Stanford University, queer studies; art and design. “I Observatory, studies how gal- individuals, among whom are
of San Francisco, California, am thrilled to announce this new axies form and evolve and how more than 125 Nobel laureates,
was chosen in the category of group of Guggenheim Fellows,” they trace the large-scale distri- members of all the national
History of Science, Technology, Edward Hirsch, president of the bution of matter in the universe. academies, winners of the Pu-
and Economics. foundation, said in a statement. He aims to apply massively litzer Prize, Fields Medal, Tur-
In her book project, “Dan- “Especially since this has been multiplexed spectroscopic capa- ing Award, Bancroft Prize, Na-
gerous Intersections: Complicity, a devastating year in so many bilities to the solution of major tional Book Award, and other
Allegory and Holocaust Memo- ways. A Guggenheim Fellow- astrophysical mysteries, such as internationally recognized
ry in Postwar France,” Sanyal ship has always been meaning- our cosmological origins and honors, the release said.

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