The association is the world's largest federation of scientists and publisher of the peer-reviewed weekly Science. It awards its fellowships annually to scientists whose efforts have helped to advance science or to foster its applications. The fellows will be officially honored Feb. 15., at the association's 1997 meeting in Seattle. Berkeley faculty have been awarded six out of 19 fellowships in the ninth annual systemwide competition for the President's Research Fellowships in the Humanities. The program is part of the systemwide Humanities Initiative, which also supports graduate student fellowships, campus-based organized research activities and the Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine.
Fellowships provide salary support to faculty conducting research in the humanities.
They are awarded on the basis of research proposals in an annual competition modeled on that of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Active ladder rank faculty, including lecturers, who are members of the Academic Senate may apply for the fellowships. Recipients were selected from a pool of 83. The award recognizes long standing contributions to the fundamental understanding of microstructure, properties and performance of structural materials for industrial applications. Ritchie will accept the award at the society's 126th annual conference in Orlando, Fla., in February.