Akhil Sharma is pleased to announce a new book. A Life of Adventure and Delight (W.W.Norton & Co.) will be available in July. Akhil Sharma was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2015.

Archiving Eden explores the role of seed banks and their preservation efforts in the face of climate change, the extinction of natural species, and decreased agricultural diversity. Dornith Doherty’s Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography (2012) supported her work on this project. Follow this link to listen to an interview (Yale radio). Follow this link for more information about Archiving Eden.

On Saturday, May 6, the Ellison Center at the University of Washington and the University Library sponsored a symposium dedicated to the work of Guggenheim Fellow William C. Brumfield (Russian History, 2000). The symposium discussed the role of documentation in the study of Russian architecture in relation to other cultures. The event was held in conjunction with an exhibit of Brumfield’s…

Jeffrey Skinner, Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, 2014, is pleased to announce the publication of two new books of poetry, Chance Divine, (Oberlin, March, 2017), and I Offer This Container: New and Selected Poems, (Salmon Poetry, April, 2017).

SPELLS. A Novel Within Photographs, by Peter Rock, Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, 2014. SPELLS will be released May 9, 2017. Peter Rock’s Guggenheim Fellowship supported his work on this project. Follow the link for more information.

Anne Wilkes Tucker, Guggenheim Fellow in Photography (1983) was awarded the AIPAD Award (2017), “established to honor and recognize visionaries who have spent their lives at the forefront of the field of photography.”

View Amanda Petrusich’s column in The New Yorker. Ms. Petrusich was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction in 2016.

Mark Steinberg, Guggenheim Fellow in Russian History, 2007, is pleased to announce the release of his new book, The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 (Oxford University Press, 2017). Follow the link for more information.

Thomas Kühne, Guggenheim Fellow in Intellectual and Cultural History, 2010, is pleased to announce the release of a new book. The Rise and Fall of Comradeship Hitler’s Soldiers: Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century was published by Cambridge University Press. View the press release.

Tess Lewis, Guggenheim Fellow in Translation, 2015, was just awarded the 2017 PEN Translation Prize for her translation of Maja Haderlap’s novel Angel of Oblivion.

A great interview with Pablo Helguera, Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, 2008. Helguera discusses his latest project, to revive Spanish-language bookstores here in the United States.

Thomas Kailath, Guggenheim Fellow in Computer Science, 1969, has been selected as an Eminent Member of the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu: EKN is the honor society of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Only 134 individuals have been selected to receive this honor since 1950. [Image: Linda A. Cicero, Stanford News Service]

In its ninety-second competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 175 Fellowships (including three joint Fellowships) to a diverse group of 178 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants. Follow…

The descendant of slaves, John Hope Franklin was part of a family that embodied the theme and title of his most celebrated work, From Slavery to Freedom. John Hope Franklin 2 January 1915 – 25 March 2009 Guggenheim Fellow in U.S. History, 1950, 1973 “The Conscience of the Nation” When the Library of Congress honored John Hope Franklin with its John W. Kluge Prize in 2006, the award…

With the growing threat from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, bacteriophages are once again in the news. Edwin Schultz, a member of the inaugural class of Guggenheim Fellows, travelled to Egypt with the support of the Foundation to study bacteriophages in 1925 with a true pioneer in that field, French Canadian Félix d’Herelle. Though Schultz and d’Herelle had mixed results during their…

Follow this link to view photographs taken at the reception honoring the 2015 Guggenheim Fellows.

Jorge Tacla: Hidden Identities, opens Thursday, May 21. Join Jorge Tacla, Fellow in Fine Arts, 1988, for a reception on May 21 from 6 to 8 pm. Image: Jorge Tacla, Identidad Oculta 71, 2014. oil and cold wax on canvas. 57 x 63 inches (144.8 x 160 cm).

Leonard Baskin, eminent printmaker, book illustrator, and sculptor, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (Fine Arts, 1953) to explore working with large-scale woodcuts. In conjunction with the new exhibition, Leonard Baskin: Wunderkammer, Galerie St. Etienne will host an opening reception on May 5, at 6 pm, which will include a talk by noted photographer Rosamond Purcell. Leonard Baskin:…

In its ninety-first competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 173 Fellowships (including two joint Fellowships) to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of over 3,100 applicants. View the list…

American painter Marc Trujillo, Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, 2008, depicts in his paintings places that are omnipresent in American urban and suburban landscapes such as gas stations, shopping malls, big chain stores, and restaurants. Claire Philips interviewed Marc Trujillo for Artsper’s weekly  “I Love LA saga.”