The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced on Thursday April 11 their appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships to a distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators working across 52 disciplines. ESS Professor and current chair, Eric Steig, was one of just two fellows in the field of Earth Science.
Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of almost 3,000 applications, the Class of 2024 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped on the basis of prior career achievement and exceptional promise.
“Humanity faces some profound existential challenges,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. “The Guggenheim Fellowship is a life-changing recognition. It’s a celebrated investment into the lives and careers of distinguished artists, scholars, scientists, writers and other cultural visionaries who are meeting these challenges head-on and generating new possibilities and pathways across the broader culture as they do so.”