The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the 2014 class of Guggenheim Fellows.

Selected from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants, the 178 scholars, artists, and scientists represent 56 disciplines, 83 academic institutions, 29 states, and two Canadian provinces. As in previous years, 48 fellows who are not affiliated with universities or hold adjunct or part-time positions received supplemental support from the Leon Levy Foundation, while the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation provided funding for a fellowship in constitutional studies, which this year was awarded to Holly Brewer. In addition, the estate of Carl Gans, himself a Guggenheim Fellow (1953, 1977), helped fund a fellowship in Organismic Biology and Ecology, which this year was awarded to Matthew Harris.

This year's fellows, who range in age from 29 to 77, include earth scientist Jun Korenaga, choreographer Ivy Baldwin, medieval and renaissance historian Marina Rustow, poet Denise Duhamel, and educator Meira Levinson. Over its ninety-year lifespan, the foundation has awarded more than $315 million to nearly 17,700 individuals, including scores of Nobel  laureates, Pulitzer Prize-winners, and Fields Medalists.

"Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has always bet everything on the individual, and we're thrilled to continue the tradition with this wonderfully talented and diverse group," said the foundation’s president, Edward Hirsch. "It's an honor to be able to support these individuals to do the work they were meant to do."