Two U of I professors receive prestigious fellowship
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Two professors at the University of Illinois are among those receiving Guggenheim Fellowships in 2024.
The fellowships are awarded to people who have demonstrated distinguished accomplishment in the past and potential for future achievement. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation said that out of 3,000 applicants, only 188 received an award.
Among the 188 recipients for 2024, evolution, ecology and behavior professor Alison Bell and architecture professor Paul Hardin Kapp were two of them.
The university said Bell studies the evolution of behavior in the three-spined stickleback fish and is a pioneer in the study of animal personality. As a Guggenheim Fellow, Bell plans to work toward the development of a conceptual framework that integrates neural and gene regulatory networks to answer fundamental questions about the the origin and maintenance of behavioral diversity.
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Kapp, meanwhile, specializes in historic preservation and is the associate director of the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management at the University of Illinois. The university said he plans to use his fellowship for a new book project that will examine how iconoclasm can alter the ways that people perceive, appreciate and engage with the most historic and monumental public spaces.
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