University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Eight Awarded Guggenheims Over the past two decads, U.C. Berkeley has demonstrated a wide cumulative lead in Guggenheim Fellowships. In 1983, the record still attested to the fact that Cal continues to excel in research and study. In the 59th year of competition, the John Simon Guggenheim Founda- tion granted this highly south-after award to eight Berkeley faculty and scholars. Selected from 3,571 applicants, these eight professors deserve hearty congratulations as red- pients of this prestigious fellowship. As students we may look forward to gaining from these instructors the merits and progress which 1983-84 ' s pursuit of independent study and work has brought them. Pictured are six of the eight faculty members who received the award. The winners and their respective fields of research are: Walter Alvarez, Geology — Impacts and mass extinctions; Robert Ballah, Sociology — Religion and society in America 1880-1980; Robert Glaeser, Biophysics — The molecular mechanism of proton transport across cell membranes; Winfried Kudszus, German — Franz Kafka ' s late stories; Barbara Metcalf, South and Southeast Asia Studies — The pilgrimage to Mecca as recorded by South Asians; Charles Murgia, Classics -- The fifth volume of the Harvard edition of Ser- vian commentaries on Virgil. Not pictured are Susanna Bar- rows, History — Drink and cafe life in 19th century France; and David Miller English and Comparative Literature — The novel and the polite. Both Miller and Barrows are pursuing their studies in France for the academic year 1983-84. 28 Faculty 111=111milla =mat Barbara Metcalf

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