| University of Oregon physicist Raghuveer Parthasarathy was among 118 researchers at 52 universities named to receive a 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. The Sloan Foundation, based in New York, established the fellowships in 1955 “to stimulate fundamental research by early career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.” The highly competitive award provides $45,000 over two years to each winner.
Parthasarathy joined the UO faculty last summer. He was one of 23 young physics professors to be honored. The fellowships also fund research in chemistry, math, neuroscience, computer science, molecular biology and economics. Parthasarathy, who earned his doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago in 2002, said he primarily will use the Sloan funds to support the students who work in his lab, where they use a diverse range of chemical, physical and optical techniques to understand membranes that enclose biological cells.
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