Guggenheim Announces 2009 Fellowship Awards for the United States and Canada

In a time of decreased funding for individuals in the arts, humanities, and sciences, the Guggenheim Fellowship program is all the more important. The continued and ever more generous donations from friends, Trustees, former Fellows, and other foundations have ensured that the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation will be able to continue the mission Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim set for it: to "add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of this country, and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding."