Stoddard named 2018 Sloan Research Fellow

Mary Caswell Stoddard, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and PEI associated faculty, was among two Princeton University faculty members to be named a 2018 Sloan Research Fellow, along with 126 researchers from 53 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the $65,000 grants recognize outstanding scientists and scholars early in their careers. Recipients can use the grants as they wish to further their research.

Mary Caswell Stoddard, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and PEI associated faculty, was among two Princeton University faculty members to be named a 2018 Sloan Research Fellows, along with 126 researchers from 53 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Princeton Assistant Professor of Chemistry Todd Hyster also was selected.

Mary Caswell Stoddard Photo byDenise Applewhite, Office of Communications

Awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the $65,000 grants recognize outstanding scientists and scholars early in their careers. Recipients can use the grants as they wish to further their research.

Stoddard joined the Princeton faculty in 2016 after four years as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University. Stoddard joined PEI’s associated faculty in 2017. “I am extremely honored to have been selected as a Sloan Research Fellow,” she said. “In the Stoddard Lab, we study the evolution of vision, color and morphology in animals, especially birds. This is a fast-moving and highly interdisciplinary area of research, and the Sloan Research Fellowship will allow me to explore some tantalizing new research directions — particularly at the interface of biology and computer science.”

Sloan Research Fellowships are available to scholars in chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics. Candidates must be nominated by their fellow scientists, and winning fellows are selected by an independent panel of senior scholars in their field on the basis of the nominee’s research accomplishments, creativity and potential to become a leader in the field.