TWO U.VA. FACULTY MEMBERS RECEIVE 
GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 5 -- University of Virginia
associate professors Karen V.H. Parshall, a science historian, and
David Vander Meulen, a literary scholar, are among 158 artists,
scholars and scientists recently chosen to receive prestigious John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships.  The fellows,
selected from 2,791 applicants this year, are appointed on the basis
of unusually distinguished achievements in the past and exceptional
promise for future accomplishments.
	Parshall, associate professor of history and mathematics,
was awarded her year-long fellowship to pursue an intellectual and
scientific biography of J.J. Sylvester, a 19th century
mathematician.  The book will delineate the development of math
within the context of 19th century culture. 
	Parshall received her bachelor of arts and master of science
degrees from the University of Virginia and her doctorate from the
University of Chicago.  She has written extensively on the
development of scientific disciplines, with a focus on mathematics,
in the United States and Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.
She will spend her fellowship year at the University of Chicago as a
visiting scholar.
	Vander Meulen, a member of the U.Va. English faculty since
1984, did his undergraduate studies at Calvin College and earned his
masters and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin. His research
focuses on bibliography and 18th century literature.  His year-long
fellowship will allow him to research "A Publishing History and
Descriptive Bibliography of Alexander Pope's 'Dunciad'." 
	Pope published about 60 different forms of the "Dunciad"
during his lifetime, according to Vander Meulen, and was always
tinkering with this satire, changing the people he was satirizing.
Vander Meulen's research concentrates on the physical copies of the
book, focusing on the binding, type and paper, as well as related
documents to discover the book's full history.  The first stop in
his research travels will be right at home in the University's
impressive 18th century Pope collection in Alderman Library.  He
will later travel to other archives and libraries in the United
States and England.
	The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was
established in 1925 by former U.S. Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim
in memory of their son, John Simon Guggenheim, "to add to the
educational, literary, artistic and scientific power of this
country, and also to provide for the cause of better international
understanding."  This year's fellows include poets, novelists,
playwrights, painters, sculptors, photographers, film makers,
choreographers, physical and biological scientists, social
scientists and scholars in humanities from American colleges and
universities as well as those not associated with academic
institutions.
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June 4, 1996
	For interviews, contact Karen Parshall at (804) 924-1411 or
David Vander Meulen at (804) 924-6624.  Television reporters should
contact our TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.