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April 28, 2003

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UCSD LITERATURE PROFESSOR AWARDED 2003 GUGGENHEIM
FELLOWSHIP

Lisa Lowe, professor of comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego, has been granted a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2003.

Lowe is among 184 artists, scholars, and scientists who were selected from more than 3,200 applicants to receive awards at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s 79th annual United States and Canadian competition. Awards for all recipients total $6,750,000.

Guggenheim Foundation president Edward Hirsch, who announced the awards, said that Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

Lowe has been on the UCSD faculty since 1986. She received a bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford University and a doctorate in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted more than $220 million in fellowships to more than 15,200 individuals.