A dozen early-career faculty members at 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 have been named to this year鈥檚 Hellman Fellowship, a program to help propel their work to the next level.
They will each receive grants from $6,000 to $50,000, for a total of $330,000 awarded this year.
鈥淲e鈥檙e proud to be able to provide this support to foster the scholarship of these promising members of our faculty,鈥 said Phil Kass, vice provost of .
The work of the 2023-24 class covers a wide range of topics: foods that could prevent the onset of diabetes, consent in medieval times, undocumented Korean youths, an interactive Black history exhibit, health issues facing transgender people and more.
Ariana Valle, an assistant professor of sociology, was awarded a grant for a project based on 130 interviews with Puerto Ricans and Latinos in Florida, examining how the intersection of colonialism, citizenship, migration and racialization is producing new politics for those groups.
John Lopez, an assistant professor of art history, plans to use the grant to make the final revisions on his book manuscript, The Aquatic Metropolis: Urban Design and Environmental Change at Tenochtitlan-Mexico City.
Hellman history
San Francisco philanthropists Chris and Warren Hellman started the program in 1995, when their daughter Frances Hellman, then a recently tenured professor at UC San Diego, 鈥渙bserved that while young faculty were well-funded when first hired, challenges would arise after two to three years when start-up resources were exhausted and before other external support was viable,鈥 . 鈥淭he Hellman family filled this need by providing financial awards for early stage researchers.鈥
The program was launched at UC San Diego and UC Berkeley, and eventually expanded to all 10 UC campuses, including 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 in 2008.
In 2020 the Hellman family provided endowments to each UC campus 鈥 $6 million to 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 鈥 to continue the awards in perpetuity, through each campus鈥檚 . The Hellmans also intended their endowments to encourage others to contribute to the societies, as 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 did when it allocated $400,000 to the program this year. For more information on donating to the 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 society, contact Jennifer Prahl, director of foundation engagement, Office of Development and Alumni Relations, by email or at 530-752-1282.
The 2023-24 fellows
This year鈥檚 inductees to the 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Society of Hellman Fellows, and their funded projects, are:
- , Department of Biological and Ag Engineering, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences 鈥 鈥淓nergy Harvesting from Artificial Lighting in Vertical Farming Systems鈥
- , Department of Cinema and Digital Media, College of Letters and Science 鈥 鈥淚n Search of Solid Ground: Immersive and Interactive Black History Exhibit鈥
- , Department of Asian American Studies, College of Letters and Science 鈥 鈥淯nexpired: Race, Imperial Futurity, and Undocumented Korean Youth Temporality鈥
- , Department of English, College of Letters and Science 鈥 鈥淗eaven: A Novel of Black Utopia鈥
- , Department of Classics, College of Letters and Science 鈥 鈥淐ompeting Visions: Classical Antiquity and Puerto Rican Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries鈥
- , Department of French and Italian, College of Letters and Science 鈥 鈥淢edieval Consent: Sex, Law and Boccaccio鈥檚 Fictions of Choice鈥
- , Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Studies, College of Letters and Science 鈥 鈥淭rans Health in Controversial Times鈥
- , Department of Mathematics, College of Letters and Science 鈥 鈥淔ormation of Separation and Onset of Reversal for the Stationary Navier-Stokes Equations鈥
- , Department of Art and Art History, College of Letters and Science 鈥 鈥淭he Aquatic Metropolis: Urban Design and Environmental Change at Tenochtitlan-Mexico City鈥
- , Department of Animal Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences 鈥 鈥淭rans-Vaccenic Acid as a Natural Insulin Sensitizer: Towards Developing Animal Source Foods With Anti-Diabetogenic Properties鈥
- , Department of Sociology, College of Letters and Science 鈥 鈥淐itizenship in Contexts: How Puerto Ricans are Transforming Race and Politics in Florida鈥
- , Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Letters and Science 鈥 鈥淏order Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails鈥
Media Resources
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