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Last week, we were thrilled to host a talk and reception with Euan Ashley, a 2023 Fellow in Medicine & Health. Ashley shared about his fascinating work studying the human genome and how it can be used to solve medical mysteries.
In 2010, Ashley led the team that carried out the very first clinical interpretation of a human genome. In the years following, as summed up by @stanfordu, his home since 2006, Ashley’s “team built tools to analyze the genomes of the first patient family sequenced, completed the first whole genome molecular autopsy, made the first genetic diagnosis using long read sequencing, and helped establish genome sequencing as a routine part of the care of patients worldwide.” Through this work, Ashley became especially well-known for establishing the field of personalized medicine. In 2022, his team set the Guinness World Record for “fastest DNA sequencing technique.” They completed the variant calling in five hours, and they made a genetic diagnoses in just over seven hours—halving the previous record. And the year before, Ashley published “The Genome Odyssey,” his first popular science book. At Stanford, Ashley is the Chair of the @stanforddeptmed, the university’s largest department.
Fun fact: Edwin W. Schultz, our very first fellow in Medicine & Health in 1925, was also teaching at Stanford when he applied for his Guggenheim Fellowship. He taught there—and chaired its Department of Medical Microbiology—for 34 years, until 1953.
Thanks to Euan Ashley, and to the Fellows who joined us, for such a memorable evening!
Photos: Stew Photography NYC
06 Nov 2026
Edward Foley is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Constitutional Studies.
Recognized as one of the country’s foremost experts on election law, Foley holds the Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University, where he also serves as director of its election law program. He has written articles for The Washington Post, Politico, and the Atlantic, and he has served as the on-air NBC and MSNBC Election law analyst for the 2020 and 2024 elections. He is also the author of two books: “Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States” and “Presidential Elections and Majority Rule.” With the support of his Guggenheim Fellowship, he is working on another book about “the electoral reform required to protect America’s constitutional democracy from authoritarian usurpation.”
Notably, Foley was the first to identify and analyze the phenomenon, “the Blue Shift,” in which provisional votes or absentee ballots are more likely to be for the Democratic Party, while in-person votes tend to be for the Republican Party. Because the provisional and absentee ballots are often counted later, early election returns may suggest a Republican lead that ultimately results in a Democratic victory.
04 Nov 2026
Hannah Arendt received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Political Science in 1952. A German-American historian and philosopher, Arendt fled Germany in 1933, the year Hitler rose to power, after she was arrested for researching antisemitism. After a few years living around Europe, she moved to New York in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1950. She solidified her career as a writer and thinker with her book “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” published in 1951, which traces the rise of antisemitism and imperialism in the first half of the 20th century. With the support of her Guggenheim Fellowship, she wrote “The Human Condition,” which considers human activities and how they shape our social and political life. It was published in 1958 and was a finalist for the National Book Award the following year. According to her @nytimes obituary, her Fellowship was instrumental in Princeton offering Arendt her first professorship; in turn, she became the first woman to be a full professor at the university. (“I am not at all disturbed about being a woman professor, because I am quite used to being a woman,” she quipped in an interview at the time.) Later, Arendt wrote the controversial text about the trial of Adolf Eichmann, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,” and the book, “On Revolution.” She left a last book, “Life of the Mind,” unfinished at the time of her death. Arendt is considered one of most influential political theorists of the 20th century. (Portrait by Fred Stein)
03 Nov 2026
Larry Racioppo received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 1997.
A born-and-bred Brooklynite, Racioppo (@larryracioppophoto) is entirely self-taught. After buying his first camera as a 20-something in the early 1970s, he made photos of the neighborhoods he knew, and the people who made them what they were. “I photographed whatever interested me—from kids playing in the streets to old men sitting in bars, from strangers on the subway to my relatives in their homes,” he wrote in the preface of his book, “Brooklyn Before.” His series have almost all focused on New York City, including images of a closed-for-the-season Coney Island, the scrap industry of the city, and makeshift basketball courts around the five boroughs.
One of Racioppo’s most enduring series—and the title of his first book, first published in 1980—is “Halloween.” Since he first picked up a camera, Racioppo created photographs of children in their costumes around his south Brooklyn stomping grounds. This series has continued throughout his career, including during his Fellowship year. Swipe to see more “Halloween” photographs from 1997-1998. His book, “Halloween,” was just republished by @quartobooksus with updated images this summer.
In addition to his Guggenheim Fellowship, Racioppo has received recognition for his work from the New York State Council of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He’s published 10 books of photographs, and his work is in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the New York Historical.
30 Oct 2026
The Guggenheim Foundation mourns the death of Pipo Nguyen-duy, a 2011 Fellow in Photography.
Nguyen-duy was born in Hue, Vietnam and immigrated to the United States as a political refugee in 1975. He took up photography in his late 20s, ultimately receiving his MA and MFA from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. In his wide-ranging body of work, Nguyen-duy considered immigration and emigration, intimacy, abandonment and decay, cultural assimilation, and the cost of war. In 1998, he began teaching at Oberlin College, where he spent his career as an adored faculty member. Carmen Twillie Ambar, the college’s president, shared, “I am simply overwhelmed with sadness… Pipo was beloved. During his years at Oberlin, he touched all of us through his passion for photography.” And he touched people all over the world with his probing, compassionate work.
29 Oct 2026
F. Sherwood Rowland won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Chemistry twice, once in 1961 and once in 1973. He specialized in atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics.
Shortly after he received his first Fellowship, he became a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (@ucirvine). There he met Mario J. Molina, a chemistry postdoctoral student, who became his research partner. During Rowland’s second Fellowship in 1973, they made the shocking discovery that a single chlorine atom byproduct, chlorofluorocarbon, found in aerosols (such as hair sprays and cleaning supplies) could absorb up to 100,000 ozone molecules in the stratosphere. Even more alarming, the atoms could linger for up to a century. The ozone layer serves to protect the planet from intense solar radiation.
Realizing the environmental implications of these findings, with Molina’s assistance, Rowland advocated for bans on these consumer products. It was slow-going; many people resisted their findings, deeming them overblown. But Rowland persisted, and, after more evidence was shared by the international scientific community, the Montreal Protocol—an international treaty prohibiting the sale of these harmful chemicals—was drafted by the United Nations @unitednations in 1987. Today, it has been ratified by 197 nations, making it the first UN treaty in history to achieve universal support. The treaty phased out more than 98% of global ozone-depleting substances.
For his work on ozone, Rowland received the Nobel Prize (@nobelprize) in Chemistry in 1995, which he shared with Molina and scientist Paul Crutzen.
Rowlands died in 2012 at the age of 84. At a White House climate round table in 1997, he explained his advocacy: ““Is it enough for a scientist simply to publish a paper? Isn’t it a responsibility of scientists, if you believe that you have found something that can affect the environment, isn’t it your responsibility to actually do something about it, enough so that action actually takes place? If not us, who? If not now, when?”
Photos via University of California, Irvine. Photo 1: Rowland in 1975; Photo 2: Rowland and Molina in their lab in 1975.
23 Oct 2026
Huge congratulations to Anne Carson (1998 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry), winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, and to Michael Woodford (1998 Fellow in Economics), who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences this month.
Carson was honored with the prize “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” Woodford received the prize “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization.”
What a joy to celebrate these Fellows and this well-deserved recognition. #nobelprize2026
Photos via The New Yorker & Columbia University
21 Oct 2026
Preston Cloud received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Earth Science in 1982.
During the Great Depression, Cloud put himself through undergraduate night classes @gwuniversity by working
odd jobs. Because of his interest in geology and paleontology, a professor helped him get a job as a preparator in the paleontology laboratory at what is now known as the @Smithsonian, which led to his very first technical publication (on Devonian brachiopods) in 1938.
This research continued through Cloud’s graduate research at Yale, his first professorship at the Missouri School of Mines, and as a member of the @usgs during World War II.
As he advanced in his career, Cloud’s areas of expertise widened, and he began to describe his specialty as “biogeology”—ultimately the study of the history of the earth. His work with Cambrian fossils in the 1940s led to his coining of the term “eruptive evolution,” which helped explain how the Cambrian period led to the sudden first appearances of nearly every phyla of modern animal.
Over the course of his professional life, Cloud was a professor @harvard, the chairman of the Department of
Geology and Geophysics at @umntwincities, a professor @ucla, and the founder of the Preston Cloud Research Laboratory @ucsb. At UCSB, he made his lab’s focus the first lunar geological samples from the Apollo 11 space mission.
Cloud’s two most popular books are “Cosmos, Earth, and Man,” which was published in 1978, and “Oasis in Space: Earth History form the Beginning,” published in 1987, which he worked on during his Fellowship year. He was a member of @thenasciences and the @americanacad, and in 1976 was awarded the Penrose Medal by the @geosociety.
A humanist and environmentalist, Cloud died in 1991. In “Oasis in Space,” he wrote: “We are made of star stuff, processed through supernovae, concentrated from the contracting solar nebula, spun into biochemical aggregates with a difference, and graced, during our tenure here, by the ability to imagine, to conceptualize, to hypothesize, to create science, poetry, music and works of art and technology.”
13 Oct 2026
Looking to add some brand-new books from Fellows to your shelves this fall? Here are just a few of the novels, non-fiction books, and poetry collections we’re excited to read as the weather gets cooler:
“The Disappearers: A Novel” by Marlon James (2026 Fellow in Fiction)
“Cloud Runner: Poems” by Joy Harjo (2014 Fellow in General Nonfiction)
“American Hagwon: A Novel” by Min Jin Lee (2018 Fellow in Fiction)
“How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington” by Marcia Chatelain (2025 Fellow in Intellectual & Cultural History)
“Switzy: A Novel” by Emma Cline (2024 Fellow in Fiction)
“Ply: A Novel” by Hernan Diaz (2022 Fellow in Fiction)
“Music Against the Night: A Novel” by Yiyun Li (2020 Fellow in Fiction)
“American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump” by Kai Bird (1984 Fellow in General Nonfiction) with Susan Goldmark
“Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems 1976-2026” by Carolyn Forché (1978 Fellow in Poetry)
“We Never Called It Frisco: A Novel” by Jed Perl (2010 Fellow in Biography)
For even more ideas about what new books to read, check out our latest Fellows News post at the link in our
bio.
09 Oct 2026
On September 17th, the Guggenheim Foundation celebrated Constitution Day in Washington,
D.C., joining the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation at Georgetown Law for a conversation and reception.
Mary McCord, the executive director of ICAP, moderated a discussion between 2018 Fellow
in Constitutional Studies Carol Anderson and constitutional scholars Ilya Somin, Bruce Swartz, and Steve Vladeck. The topic? Democratic governance and the rule of law.
It was an honor and a pleasure to partner on such an invigorating event. Many thanks to @georgetown_ICAP, Georgetown Law, and the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation—an essential supporter of the Guggenheim Foundation—for a memorable evening. We’re especially grateful to Barb Siskin, the president of the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation, for initiating this inspiring collaboration.
Photos by Luca Crudeli/RCS Photography
06 Oct 2026
Our latest Fellows News post is up! Check out GF.org for the updates Fellows have shared with us about their events, publications, awards, and more happening in October, November, and December.
Click the link in our bio or Story for more.
02 Oct 2026
Congratulations to the two Guggenheim Fellows who were awarded MacArthur Fellowships (@macfound) this week:
Trajal Harrell, 2012 Fellow in Choreography, received his MacArthur grant for “bringing different dance traditions into dialogue and creating speculative works rooted in art and dance history.”
Maaza Mengiste (@maazamengiste), 2022 Fellow in Fiction, received her MacArthur grant for “revealing the human costs of political violence through a compelling blend of history, memory, and imagination.”
We’re so proud of these Fellows and their tremendous work. #macfellow
Photos: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
30 Sep 2026
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