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SEVEN HARVARD PROFESSORS RECEIVE SLOAN FELLOWSHIPS

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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced that seven Harvard professors are among the 118 recipients of the Sloan Research Fellowships for 2009. Sloan Fellowships “seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.” The fellows, who receive a $40,000 grant for the two-year fellowship, are selected for their distinguished performance and unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.

This year’s Harvard recipients and their field of study are as follows: Alan Aspuru-Guzik for chemistry; Erica Field for economics; Thomas Lam, the Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor of Mathematics, for mathematics; Andres E. Leschziner for molecular biology; Nathan Nunn for economics; Bence P. Ölveczky for organismic and evolutionary biology; and Lauren K. Williams, the Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor of Mathematics, for mathematics.