Cc: ruby@math.harvard.eduSubject: = Radcliffe Fellowships in Science
-- getting the word = out
Please circulate the message below
= to faculty in your department.=A0 I've also mailed another poster
announcing fellowships in case the one we sent last summer was taken
down or you could otherwise use another poster. Thanks.
Dear Colleagues:
The
deadline for applications for Radcliffe
= fellowships is
December 1.=A0 The application is short,
certainly = compared to the grants applications most of us must
prepare: a brief = (under 5 page) project description and three letters
of reference.=A0 = It's not too late to encourage colleagues you would
like to have in the = Cambridge/Boston area for a year to consider
spending a sabbatical or = leave year at Radcliffe.=A0 Radcliffe's
interdisciplinary community has = proved inspirational in many ways to
science fellows. (Ask any of = them!)
The fellowship
application is on the web at
http://www.r
adcliffe.edu/fellowships/apply/index.php.=A0 A list of recent
science fellows is appended to this message so you may see the many
different types of scientists who have participated since Radcliffe
became an Institute for Advanced Study.
A few details that have
= not been clear to some in the past bear mentioning. The typical
fellows = (outside the arts) are faculty, and fellowship stipends are
targeted to = complement sabbatical support from fellows' home
institutions. Harvard = faculty may apply, and recent classes have
included 8-10 Harvard junior = and senior faculty.=A0 We aim for a
class diverse in many dimensions - = career stage (both senior and
junior faculty), field, nationality, as = well as gender.=A0 It is
possible for
small groups as well as = individuals to apply, as
the applications materials describe. In the = sciences, we also have
been encouraging participation by researchers in = national or industry
labs, though as with academics, we expect home = institutions to
provide partial support.=A0 We do not ordinarily provide = postdoctoral
fellowships for various reasons, including the large number = of
alternative sources of funding for such positions.
More
general information about Radcliffe can be found by following various
links at
http://www.radcliffe.edu
with general fellowships information, including links to a complete
list of this year's fellows and the fall schedule of fellows'
presentations at
http://www.
radcliffe.edu/fellowships/events/index.php.=A0
Last year I
= was contacted in December and January about many people who would
have = been wonderful to have as fellows, but it was too late to
include them = in the selection process for 2005-2006.=A0 I'd like to
make sure we = don't similarly miss opportunities for 2006-2007.=A0 If
you have = questions or would like to brainstorm about ideas and
potential = candidates, please let me know.
Finally, I invite
you to join us = for the science fellows' lectures.=A0 If you don't see
someone listed = whose talk you'd like to attend, s/he may be giving a
talk in the spring = or primarily to the fellows (to which we'd be glad
to invite you if you = let us know).=A0
The Radcliffe calendar also
includes a Dean's = Lecture by Ray Jayawardhana, University of Toronto,
a panel of = distinguished women astronomers entitled,=A0 "The Sky's
Not the Limit: = Women in Astronomy," and science lectures by Debra
Fischer, San = Francisco State University, and Elizabeth Lada,
University of Florida. = More information is on the Radcliffe website,
http://www.radcliffe
.edu/events/calendar.php Wishes for a good and productive
year.
Barbara J. Grosz
Dean of Science, Radcliffe Institute
= for Advanced Study
Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences,
DEAS
= Harvard University
Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced = Study Science Fellows 2005-2006:
Katrin Becker,
Physics, = Texas A&M University
Melanie Becker,
Physics, Texas = A&M University
Pierrette Cassou-Nogues,
Mathematics, Institut de = Mathematiques de Bordeaux
Rina
Dechter, Computer Science, = University of California, Irvine
Alice
Flaherty, Medicine, Harvard = Medical School
Rachel Goldman,
Materials Science, University of = Michigan
Graznya Jasienska,
Biological Anthropology, Institute of = Public Health, Jagiellonian
University
Nadira Karunaweera, = Molecular and Cellular
Biology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
= Anna Nagurney,
Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
= Naomi
Pierce, Evolutionary and Organismic Biology, Harvard = University
James Rogers, Computer Science, Earlham College
Diane = Souvaine,
Computer Science, Tufts University
Luke Whitesell,
Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Science Fellows
2004-2005:
Sandra Citi, Molecular and Cellular Biology,
University of Geneva
James Costa, Evolutionary and Organismic
Biology, Western Carolina University
Melissa Franklin, Physics,
Harvard University
Rebecca Mercuri, Computer Science, Harvard
University Kennedy School of Government
Irene Pepperberg,
Psychology, Brandeis University
Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas,
Mathematics, Tufts University
Veronica Vaida, Chemistry, University
= of Colorado, Boulder
Marie-France Vigneras, Mathematics,
University = of Paris
John Wakeley, Evolutionary and Organismic
Biology, Harvard = University
Tiffani Williams, Computer Science,
University of New = Mexico
Elizabeth Zimmer, Evolutionary and
Organismic Biology, = Smithsonian NIMNH Laboratories
David
Zuckerman, Computer Science, = University of Texas at Austin
Radcliffe Institute for = Advanced Study Science Fellows
2003-2004:
Anne Brunet, = Biology , Harvard Medical
School
Sandra Chapman, Physics, University = of Warwick (UK)
Paula T. Hammond, Chemical Engineering, MIT
= Marie Machacek,
Astronomy, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
= Gabriele
Charlotte Nebe, Mathematics, Universitt Ulm
Omowunmi A. = Sadik,
Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton
Tandy
Warnow, Computational Biology, University of Texas, Austin
Computation and Randomness Cluster:
Eli Ben-Sasson, MIT/Harvard
= Oded Goldreich, Weizman Institute of Science
Dana Ron, Tel Aviv
University
Ronitt Rubinfeld, NEC Research Institute
Madhu
Sudan, = MIT
Salil Vadhan, Harvard University
Radcliffe
Institute = for Advanced Study Science Fellows 2002-2003:
Fiona Doetsch, = Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard
University
Mary Beth Saffo, = Evolutionary and Organismic Biology,
Arizona State University
= Kathleen J. Stebe, Chemical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University
= Marvalee H. Wake, Integrative
Biology/Evolutionary Morphology, UC = Berkeley
Sijue Wu,
Mathematics, University of Maryland, College = Park
Cosmology
Cluster:
Katherine Benson, Physics, Emory = University
Raphael
Bousso, Physics, UC, Santa Barbara
Eanna = Flanagan, Physics,
Cornell University
Amanda Wensley Peet, Physics, = University of
Toronto
Lisa Randall, Physics. Harvard University
= Maria T.
Zuber, Geophysics and Planetary Science, MIT
=