9 Indian Americans win the prestigious fellowship.
AB Wire
WASHINGTON, DC: Nine Indian Americans, including novelists Akhil Sharma and Vikram Chandra, are among the recipients of the Guggenheim Fellowships, for 2015.
It’ the 91st competition for the United States and Canada region in which the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded fellowships, the amount of which is unspecified, to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists, according to a press release.
The recipients were selected on the basis of “prior achievement and exceptional promise” from among more than 3,100 applicants through a rigorous selection process.
The 9 Indian Americans are:
- Akhil Sharma, novelist.
- Vikram Chandra, novelist.
- Swati Chattopadhyay – professor, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Vishal Jugdeo – artist and filmmaker.
- Krishna V. Palem, the Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing at the Department of Computer Science at the George Brown School of Engineering at Rice University.
- Monica Prasad, professor, Northwestern University, Chicago.
- Gita Pullapilly, film and video-maker, co-founder of Sunny Side Up Films.
- PJ Raval, film and documentary/video-maker.
- Asif A. Siddiqi, professor, Fordham University, New York.