2 UCLA faculty members awarded Sloan Research Fellowships

Two young faculty members at UCLA are among 118 scientists and scholars from 64 colleges and universities to receive 2008 research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded to "exceptional young researchers" based on their "outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge," according to the New York-based foundation.

The UCLA recipients are Inwon C. Kim, an assistant professor of mathematics and an expert on nonlinear partial differential equations, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, an assistant professor of physics and an expert on condensed matter theory, quantum transport and nonequilibrium phenomena in nanostructures.

The two-year, $50,000 fellowships are intended to enhance the careers of exceptional scientists and scholars in physics, chemistry, mathematics, neuroscience, economics, computer science and molecular biology.

For more information on Kim, please visit www.math.ucla.edu/~ikim. For more on Tserkovnyak, visit http://personnel.physics.ucla.edu/directory/faculty/index.php?f_name=tserkovnyak.

UCLA is California’s largest university, with an enrollment of nearly 37,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The UCLA College of Letters and Science and the university’s 11 professional schools feature renowned faculty and offer more than 300 degree programs and majors. UCLA is a national and international leader in the breadth and quality of its academic, research, health care, cultural, continuing education and athletic programs. Four alumni and five faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize.