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.
