Squeak Carnwath, artist and professor of art, and Blake Temple, professor of mathematics, at the University of California, Davis, are among 147 scholars and artists nationwide to receive 1994 Guggenheim fellowship awards. Recipients of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's annual competition, in which more than $4 million is awarded, are appointed on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for the future. Carnwath, who is currently on un-paid leave from UC Davis, also teaches and serves as associate dean at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. She will use her fellowship to take off a year from teaching to paint. She plans to travel to New York, Hawaii and Europe for her research. Carnwath says she considers art-making and painting a way to "practice life. It is one way to observe and pay attention to life's small, daily experiences, such as breathing in and breathing out." Temple plans to use the fellowship during the next year to refine a new mathematical explanation of the expanding universe, as well as to work with his graduate students. Temple specializes in the mathematical theory of shock waves, examples of which are sonic booms, tidal waves and earthquakes. Most recently, Temple has been adding shock waves to Einstein's equations describing the universe. Together with a colleage at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Temple has constructed a theoretical alternative to the Big Bang model of the universe's creation. The solutions are plausible, Temple says, but he stresses that they are highly speculative and that no physical evidence supports them yet. During the Guggenheim foundation's 70-year history, the organization has granted more than $161 million in fellowships. It relies on an extensive network of advisory panels, which make recommendations to a selection committee.