14 Guggenheim Fellowships Granted To Faculty Members For Research

Fourteen Harvard faculty members have received Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 1964, the Guggenheim Foundation announced last week.

The University of California at Berkeley and Yale University both received 19 fellowships. Harvard was third in the nation with its total of 14. Columbia was fourth and Princeton seventh, with ten and seven grants respectively.

The Foundation awarded $1,882,000 to 312 scholars, scientists, and artists throughout the Western Hemisphere and the Philippines. The grants are made to assist the Fellows in their scholastic and scientific research and cover both travelling and living expenses. The average grant is over $6,000.

Harvard Recipients

The recipients at Harvard with their projects, in parentheses are Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government (A study of the fall of the French Third Republic and of the Vichy regime from 1934 to 1944, focused on domestic politics and particularly on the French Right). Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor Emeritus of the Humanities (Studies in American thought).

Dr. Alan C. Aisenberg '46, assistant professor of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University Medical School (Immunological investigations related to human disease). Morton W. Bloomfield, professor of English (Studies in the problems of medieval narrative, at the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris). George F. Carrier, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Analytical investigations of questions in fluid dynamics, at the University of Western Australia).

William G. Cochran, professor of Statistics (Preparation of a monograph on the planning of observational studies for the use of research workers in the social sciences, medicine, and public health, at the Rothamsted Experimental Station near London). Frank Freidel, Jr,. professor of History (Further volumes in a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, at Harvard and Hyde Park, N.Y.). Howard S. Hibbett '44, professor of Japanese Literature (A critical study of the psychological novel in Japan since 1900, at Tokyo).

Liller at Cambridge

William Liller '48, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy (Telescopic observation of the emission component of an ionized calcium line in cool stars, at the Cambridge University Observatory). John Rawis, professor of Philosophy (An analytical study of the concept of justice, at Harvard).

Nadav Safran, assistant professor of Government (Studies in the role of bureaucracy in advanced and developing countries, in Egypt and throughout the Middle East). Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English (Studies in the development of Shakespeare's ethical view and artistic method, at Harvard and in England).

Helmut Koester, professor of New Testament Studies, Harvard Divinity School (A study of the growth and development of the so-called Gospel tradition in the second century A.D., at Harvard). Wilbert Lick, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering (Studies in the fundamental characteristics of energy transfer by radiation in conjunction with conduction and convection).

The members of the Faculty will be on sabbatical leave for the coming academic year, but all of them will be returning to Harvard to resume regular teaching duties the following year.