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Eleven of Faculty Get Guggenheim Grants for Study

Eleven faculty members have received Guggenheim Fellowships for independent study and research.

The grants are awarded annually to Americans who have shown "high capacity for original scholarly research and artistic creation." There were 243 awards this year.

The winners include Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, for studies on educational psychology in the light of contemporary work on cognition-perception, learning, and thinking; Dimitri Cizevsky, lecture on Slavic, for studies of the philosophy of Comenius and Slavic baroque literature; Kenneth J. Conant '15, professor of Architecture, for studies of the abbey and Monastery at Cluny; Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, for studies of the conflict of the concept of civil liberties and the doctrine of "reason of state."

John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, fro studies of the interplay of economics and politics in American life; Carl Kaysen, assistant professor of Economics, for studies of British policy and experience in industrial organization; Harold P. Levene, lecture on Applied Science, for studies on wave propagation; Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, professor of English, for studies in the technique of Finnish oral poetry.

Eugene G. Rochow, professor of Cheruistry, for studies of methods of teaching graduate inorganic chemistry; James E. Storer, assistant professor of Applied Physics, for research on the analysis and synthesis of microwave filters; Carroll M. Williams, professor of Zoology, for studies of insect growth and metamorphosis.

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