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Portraits of Violet Barbour, Isaac Fisher, and Aaron Copland that they included in their applications to join the first class of Guggenheim Fellows in 1925.   In 1925, Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife, Olga Guggenheim, established the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, in honor of their late son. John Simon had died at the

  In September, we interviewed Monica Dus, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Biology. An associate professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan, she is the principal investigator of the Dus Laboratory of Nutrigenomics, focusing on the intersection of food, genes, and the brain. Dus grew up in

We reached out to two Fellows whose admiration of Mary Lou Williams (1972 and 1977 Music Composition Fellow) is well-documented. Farah Jasmine Griffin, a 2021 Fellow in General Nonfiction who wrote the book Harlem Nocturne, said, “Mary Lou Williams’ gifts as composer, arranger, musician, mentor and humanitarian are so capacious we have yet to come

From left: Sam Messer, Mark Thomas Gibson, and Chie Fueki.   Earlier this month, Chie Fueki (2022 Fellow), Mark Thomas Gibson (2022 Fellow), and Sam Messer (1996 Fellow) came together to speak on Zoom. Fueki and Gibson were students of Messer’s at the Yale School of Art, where they received their MFAs, and taught alongside

Colored Window at Edd’s Drive-In, Pascagoula, MS ©Richard Frishman Richard Frishman received a Fellowship in Photography in 2021 to work on his project, “Ghosts of Segregation.” During his Fellowship year, Frishman road-tripped all around the United States, taking photographs of places that still carry traces of our country’s history of racist policies and actions. The

Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Biology, is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine. There, she leads a lab that studies the evolution of butterfly vision and coloration, and how those characteristics link to behavioral traits. She has researched how butterflies use color to identify

There are myriad Fellows whose work is concerned with climate change, sustainability, and the protection of our planet. Here are a few select names.  Ansel Adams (1946, 1948, and 1959 Fellow in Photography) was a photographer known especially for his black-and-white landscapes of the American West. A lifelong conservationist, he contracted with the United States

Fluvial geographer Frank Magilligan (2020 Fellow in Geography and Environmental Studies) and Sarah Cameron Sunde (2021 Fellow in Drama and Performance Art) may not immediately seem like a natural pair. Magilligan, the Frank J. Reagan ’09 Chair of Policy Studies at Dartmouth College, is one of the foremost experts on stream channel and watershed responses

  “When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself—the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflict and eternal change. For us as living creatures it has special meaning as an area in or near