Date Posted: 4/25/2011

Assistant professors Rafael Pass, Ashutosh Saxena, and Hakim Weatherspoon all were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships. These fellowships are given to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. 118 are given yearly across all of chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, neuroscience, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, ocean sciences or in a related interdisciplinary field; 16 went to computer scientists this year. More info can be found at the Cornell Chronicle.