Professor Heather Maynard, UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor in Polymer Science and associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, has been awarded the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship.
The new fellows are part of the 101st class of 223 awarded scholars, scientists and creative professionals from the U.S. and Canada chosen from a pool of more than 5,000 applicants.
“Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and President of the Guggenheim Foundation. “As the Foundation enters its second century and looks to the future, I feel confident that this new class of 223 individuals will do bold and inspiring work, undaunted by the challenges ahead. We are honored to support their visionary contributions.”
Learn more about UCLA’s new Guggenheim Fellows – https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/5-ucla-faculty-members-awarded-2026-guggenheim-fellowships
Other Guggenheim fellows from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry include Prineha Narang (2023), Neil Garg (2016), Paula Diaconescu (2015), David Eisenberg (1984), William Gelbart (1998), Richard Kaner (1996), Sabeeha Merchant (1998), Paul Weiss (1997), and Jeffrey Zink (1987).
