From Cornell News
Five from Cornell named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows
By Tom Fleischman
Five Cornell faculty members are among 126 early-career researchers across North America who have won 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Cornell recipients are: danah boyd, the Geri Gay Professor of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Abe Davis, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science; Xiaomeng Liu, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S); Azahara Oliva, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior (A&S); and Daniel Stern, assistant professor of mathematics (A&S)
Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor exceptional U.S. and Canadian early-career scholars whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders...
danah boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University and graduated with a Ph.D in Information Science from the School of Information in 2008.
