Yale affiliates named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows

Two Yale faculty members - Jun Korenaga and Steven Pincus - and 10 alumni have been named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows "on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." The university affiliates were among 178 scholars, artists, and scientists selected from nearly 3,000 candidates from the United States and Canada to receive the fellowship, according to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, which announced the results of its 90th annual competition earlier this month. Yale faculty members. Jun Korenaga, professor of geology and geophysics: A self-labeled "freestyle geophysicist," Korenaga studies Earth's evolution using an array of theoretical and observational methods - is a professor of geology and geophysics and labels himself a "freestyle geophysicist." He is known particularly for his hypothesis of slower plate tectonics on the young Earth, which challenges a prevailing belief in earth sciences. Korenaga has recently developed a new method of identifying what has long been invisible inside the Earth. As a Guggenheim Fellow he will explore the possibility of optimizing the new detection method and its application to the seismic imaging of Earth's deep interior. Steven Pincus, the Bradford Durfee Professor of History and co-director of the Center for Historical Enquiry and the Social Sciences : Pincus specializes in early modern British, European, and Atlantic history.