Scholars representing a broad range of countries and cultures are among the recipients of 2012-2013 Donald D. Harrington Fellowships at The University of Texas at Austin. The six faculty and six graduate fellows from Canada, Germany, India, Spain, Taiwan and the United States are on campus for a period of intense study in their chosen fields, collaborating and exploring ideas together and with other scholars on campus.
The Harrington Fellows are actively engaged in diverse areas of research. Whether it is investigating metamaterial applications in cloaking and invisibility, researching the developmental origins of children’s conceptual knowledge about other people, computationally modeling human perception and learning, or developing novel statistical methodology to solve complex problems in finance and genomics, the Fellows are focused on unsolved problems and challenges.
“The Harrington Fellows embody what is best about higher education – diverse people studying diverse subjects to build humanity’s body of knowledge. I’m so proud The University of Texas is home to this program and to these 12 extraordinary scholars,” said Bill Powers, president of The University of Texas at Austin and chairman of the board for the Harrington Fellows Program.
The Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program is one of the best-endowed visiting scholar and graduate fellow programs in the nation, and the most prestigious fellowship program at The University of Texas at Austin. The fellowships support young faculty members and graduate students who have extraordinary academic records and a broad range of distinctive achievements. Sybil Harrington, the granddaughter of one of the first families to settle Amarillo, established the program as a tribute to her husband, Donald D. Harrington.