Six UCLA faculty, including three scholars from the College, have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among the most prestigious honors presented to scholars, artists and writers.

The Guggenheim Foundation awards the fellowships for "unusually distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." The new Fellows at UCLA are among 185 artists, scholars and scientists selected to receive awards totaling $6.9 million.

The new Guggenheim Fellows from the College and their areas of interest are

• Cameron D. Campbell, associate professor of sociology. Campbell's research focuses on the relationships between social organization, family decision-making, and demographic behavior. Campbell will use his Guggenheim Fellowship to study social and family change in Liaoning, 1850-2000 (in collaboration with James Lee).
  
  
• Judith A. Carney, professor of geography. Carney studies African agriculture and ecology, and Latin America, with several current research projects on culture, technology, and the environment. Carney's fellowship will be used in her work on Africa’s botanical heritage in the Atlantic world.
  
  
• William R. Zame, professor of economics and mathematics. Zame's research focuses on bankruptcy, models in game theory, and economic geography. His Guggenheim Fellowship will support his research on theoretical and experimental studies of financial markets.

In addition to the fellows from the College, the other UCLA faculty to receive Guggenheim Awards for 2004 are Stuart Banner, professor of law; David Rousséve, professor and chair of the Department of World Arts and Cultures; and Jeffrey Vallance, visiting assistant professor of art.

UCLA's Guggenheim winners were among 185 fellows chosen from more than 3,200 applicants. Awards by the Guggenheim Foundation for 2004 totaled nearly $6.9 million. Since 1925, the foundation has granted more than $230 million in fellowships.

The Guggenheim Fellowship recipients for 2004 include poets, novelists, playwrights, painters, sculptors, photographers, film makers, choreographers, scientists, and scholars in the liberal arts.

Recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships are selected by a committee of scholars from universities and institutes nationwide.