University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Ilse Cleeves Named Cottrell Scholar

February 24, 2022

Ilse Cleeves, astronomy, University of Virginia, is among 24 outstanding teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy named recipients of Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s 2022 Cottrell Scholar Awards. Each award is $100,000.    

 

Recipients are chosen through a rigorous peer-review process of applications from a wide variety of public and private research universities and primarily undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada. Their award proposals incorporate both research and science education.

  

Read the full announcement. 

Cottrell Scholars from 1994-2021 

 

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, founded in 1912, is a private foundation that funds early stage, high-potential basic research in the physical sciences (astronomy, chemistry, physics, and related fields) at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.  

 

Dr. Ilse Cleeves stands in front of the historic McCormick Telescope

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