Apr 15, 2025
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to share that Coleman Collins and Simon Huttegger have been awarded 2025 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships. Professors Collins and Huttegger are among 198 scientists and scholars receiving the prestigious grants this year. UC Irvine now has 61 Guggenheim Fellows from various backgrounds and fields of study.
An interdisciplinary artist, writer and researcher, Coleman Collins, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, has studied the connections between “things in the world” and their digital approximations, paying particular attention to the ways in which real and virtual spaces are socially produced. Working across sculpture, video, photography and text, Professor Collins attempts to locate a synthesis between seemingly opposed terms: subject and object; object and image; original and duplicate; freedom and captivity. Prior to joining UC Irvine in 2023, Professor Collins was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program and earned an MFA at UCLA. Professor Collins will use the Guggenheim Fellowship to produce a body of work continuing his exploration into the resonances between the emergent cultures of diasporic groups and the effects of digital methods of transmission, copying and reiteration.
Simon Huttegger, Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, studies game and decision theory, the philosophy of science, the foundations of probability, the theory of measurement, and the philosophy of biology. A native Austrian, Professor Huttegger joined UC Irvine in 2008 after spending two years as a postdoc at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Vienna. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Salzburg. He currently serves as a co-editor of The Review of Symbolic Logic journal which focuses on research at the intersection of logic, philosophy and the sciences. Professor Huttegger will use the Guggenheim Fellowship to support his research on the mathematical, statistical and philosophical foundations of inductive inference.
Please join me in congratulating Professors Collins and Huttegger on this achievement.
Sincerely,
Hal Stern
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics