CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Five professors at the University of Illinois - Asef Bayat,Joy Harjo, Catherine Prendergast, Stephen Andrew Taylor and Deke Weaver- have been named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows. They are among 178 North American artists, scholars and scientists selected on the basis of achievement and exceptional promise from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants, according to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Five Illinois Professors Named Guggenheim Fellows
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