Westwood : UCLA is 2nd in Guggenheims

UCLA has come in second in the nation for 1988 fellowships awarded to researchers by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Ten UCLA scholars received the fellowships, while UC Berkeley ranked first with 14. Scholars at 95 educational and research institutions nationwide received the awards this year.

The fellowships are awarded for research projects to scholars who demonstrate unusually distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment, said UCLA spokesman Harlan Lebo.

The 1988 fellowship recipients at UCLA are Marilyn Adams, professor of philosophy; Patricia Rieff Anawalt, consulting curator of costumes and textiles, Museum of Cultural History; Stephen R. Anderson, professor of linguistics; Robert Boyd, assistant professor of anthropology; E. Bradford Burns, professor of Latin American history; Leland E. Burns, professor of urban planning; Carmine D. Clemente, professor of anatomy; David Sabean, professor of history; J. William Schopf, professor of paleobiology, and David O. Sears, professor of psychology and political science and dean of the Division of Social Sciences.