Five Cornell faculty members have been selected to receive Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships, the Sloan Foundation has announced.

They are: Srivivasan Keshav, associate professor, Jon Kleinberg, assistant professor, and Brian C. Smith, assistant professor, all in the Department of Computer Science; and Philip C. Argyres and Eanna Flanagan, both assistant professors of physics and nuclear studies in the Department of Physics.

They were among 100 outstanding young scientists and economists to be selected Sloan Fellows this year. Sloan Fellows are engaged in research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, neuroscience and economics, and this year represent faculty from 49 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The fellowships -- totaling $3.5 million this year -- allow scientists to continue their research with $35,000 each for two years. Fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them.

Selection of young scientists as Sloan Fellows is based on exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge. More than 400 scientists were nominated this year by department chairs and other senior scholars familiar with their talents. A committee consisting of 18 distinguished scientists, which this year included John E. Hopcroft, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell, and Saul Teukolsky, Cornell professor of physics and of astronomy, reviewed the nominations.