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CONTACT: Cheryl Gundy FOR RELEASE: March 31, 1995
410-338-4707
PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR95-19
1995 HUBBLE FELLOWS TO STUDY HST DISCOVERIES
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has selected 12 young
scientists for the 1995 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The
awardees were selected from a pool of applications from highly
qualified candidates worldwide.
Inaugurated in 1990, the Hubble Fellowship Program funds research
opportunities for a significant fraction of the approximately 200 Ph.D.
astronomers who graduate annually. The program is a joint venture
between NASA and STScI, in cooperation with astronomical institutions
across the United States.
The scientists selected for this program will have an opportunity to
conduct Hubble Space Telescope (HST)-related research of their choice
at participating astronomical institutions throughout the U.S. In
order to avoid an excessive concentration of talent at any one
astronomy institution, no more than one new Fellow per year is approved
for any one place. New Hubble Fellows are added each year, for
three-year terms. The program currently supports a pool of several
dozen astronomers.
Candidates are selected each year through a review by a 10 member panel
composed of eminent scientists from U.S. institutions, which ranks them
on the basis of merit (research proposal, publications, academic
achievements), after which the STScI director or his designate makes
the final selection. On completion of the Fellowship Program, these
young astronomers are expected to go on to professorships at major
institutions. The Hubble Fellowship Program is expected to play an
important role in expanding and strengthening the astronomical
community.
"The Hubble Fellowships not only fund excellent scientific research,
but also bring the best and brightest into the nation's centers of
higher education," said Peter Stockman, deputy director of STScI. "We
expect that many of the Hubble Fellows will become tomorrow's top
scientists and educators."
The 1995 Hubble Fellowship recipients and the institutions where they
will conduct their research are: Robert Blum, Joint Institute for
Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Michael
Eracleous, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Philippe Fischer,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Adam Frank, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Mauro Giavalisco, Observatories of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, CA; and Margaret Hanson,
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Other recipients are: Inger Jorgensen, University of Texas, Austin,
TX; James Mihos, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Michael
Rauch, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; Katherine
Roth, Institute for Astronomy, University of HI, Honolulu, Hawaii; Ata
Sarajedini, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ; and Michael
Vogeley, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD.
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The Space Telescope Science Institute is operated by AURA (the
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.) for NASA,
under contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation
between NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency).