Assistant Professor Awarded Prestigious Sloan Fellowship

Chris Jermaine, an assistant professor in the CISE Department, has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for 2008-2010. This appears to be the first time that a faculty member in UF's College of Engineering has ever received this award, which is widely considered the oldest and most prestigious of its kind.

The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. Currently a total of 118 fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Thirty-five Sloan Fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers, fourteen have won the Fields Medal in Mathematics, and hundreds have received other honors.