FACULTY AWARD: Five Princeton faculty named 2014 Sloan Fellows

Five Princeton University faculty members were among the 126 researchers from the United States and Canada named as 2014 Sloan Research Fellows. Awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the $50,000 fellowships recognize promising early-career scientists who have been nominated by their colleagues. The new fellows from Princeton are: Waseem Bakr, an assistant professor of physics; Clifford Brangwynne, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering; Robert Knowles, an assistant professor of chemistry; Benoit Pausader, an assistant professor of mathematics; and Rodney Priestley, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering.