Recent Event Highlights: Wis. farmer gets rock-star treatment, shout-out from Bill Clinton after winning genius grant, MacArthur Foundation Awards 24 'Genius Grants', Jerry Mitchell of Mississippi Gets MacArthur 'Genius' Grant, MacArthur Foundation awards 24 'Genius Grants', Camille Utterback, 2009 MacArthur Fellow, Maneesh Agrawala, 2009 MacArthur Fellow, and 96 more...
Created by dipity on Nov 5, 2008
Last updated: 10/21/10 at 10:06 PM
Macarthur Genius Grant has no followers yet. Be the first one to follow.
Excerpt
...said the title fits. "Absolutely, he's a very intelligent man," said Jason Allen, a partner at a Milwaukee law firm. The MacArthur Foundation grant provides $100,000 per year for five years, which winners can use however they want. Allen, whose interns and...
Source Info
Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/business/67144347.html
Full story at tinyurl.com A man in Japan has perfected the art of making schoolgirl panties take flight. I think this guy deserves a Nobel prize and/or MacArthur Genius Grant so that he can continue his research.
and was a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Formerly a pop culture critic for The Village Voice, Whitehead's journalism has appeared in Newsday, Spin, Vibe, The New York Times, Harper's, and Salon. In 2002, he was awarded a MacArthur genius grant. He is currently teaching two creative writing classes at the University of Richmond. ... universityofrichmond university richmond college va ur a&s artsandsciences english writers series colson whitehead ...
Recently awarded a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation, MINDS ON THE EDGE panelist Elyn Saks talks about mental illness. ... "Elyn Saks" "Minds on the Edge" "mental illness" MOTE NAMI bipolar schizophrenia "MacArthur Foundation" grant
Excerpt
...people to forget the way they think about severe mental illness are among 24 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants." The $500,000 fellowships were announced Tuesday by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation....
Source Info
NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113054678&ft=1&f=1013
Excerpt
...YORK Scientists, artists and journalists are among this year's recipients of the MacArthur Foundation's $500,000 "Genius Grants." The winners were announced today by the Chicago-based foundation that has been awarding the grants for nearly 30 years. Among...
Source Info
Editor & Publisher
Related Topics
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004014669
Excerpt
...to forget the way they think about severe mental illness are among 24 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants." The $500,000 fellowships were announced Tuesday by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. While...
Source Info
KansasCity.com
Related Topics
http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/1460936.html
Digital artist Camille Utterback was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009. The Fellowship is a $500000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org/fellows.
Computer vision technologist Maneesh Agrawala was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009. The Fellowship is a $500000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org/fellows.
Applied mathematician L. Mahadevan was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009. The Fellowship is a $500000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org/fellows.
Novelist Edwidge Danticat was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009. The Fellowship is a $500000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org/fellows.
Ornithologist Richard Prum was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009. The Fellowship is a $500000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org/fellows.
Geriatric physician Mary Tinetti was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009. The Fellowship is a $500000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org/fellows.
Applied physicist John A Rogers was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009. The Fellowship is a $500000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org/fellows.
Health services innovator Rebecca Onie was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009. The Fellowship is a $500000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org/fellows.
Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009. The Fellowship is a $500000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org
James Kalm has been a fan of Dave Hickey for years. The polemical Hickey has received a MacArthur Genius Grant, and used his ideas and prestige to establish a creative enclave at the University of Nevada at Los Vegas. Hes a provocative commentator on contemporary art, an essayist delving into deconstructivist theory, and a correspondent chronicling the American scene who melds the breadth of Mark Twain with the ultra-hipness of Hunter S. Thomson. This lecture was delivered at the School ...
James Kalm has been a fan of Dave Hickey for years. The polemical Hickey has received a MacArthur Genius Grant, and used his ideas and prestige to establish a creative enclave at the University of Nevada at Los Vegas. Hes a provocative commentator on contemporary art, an essayist delving into deconstructivist theory, and a correspondent chronicling the American scene who melds the breadth of Mark Twain with the ultra-hipness of Hunter S. Thomson. This lecture was delivered at the School ...
James Kalm has been a fan of Dave Hickey for years. The polemical Hickey has received a MacArthur Genius Grant, and used his ideas and prestige to establish a creative enclave at the University of Nevada at Los Vegas. Hes a provocative commentator on contemporary art, an essayist delving into deconstructivist theory, and a correspondent chronicling the American scene who melds the breadth of Mark Twain with the ultra-hipness of Hunter S. Thomson. This lecture was delivered at the School ...
Full Video: bit.ly MacArthur Genius Grant winner Amy Smith presents Design, Dialogue and Duct Tape Tools for International Development - using technological innovation to address everyday problems in developing nations. ... MacArthur Genius Grant Amy Smith GSSE International Development low tech solutions
time. (She calls the signaling molecules "bacterial Esperanto.") The discovery shows how cell populations use chemical powwows to stage attacks, evade immune systems and forge slimy defenses called biofilms. For that, she's won a MacArthur "genius" grant -- and is giving new hope to frustrated pharmacos seeking new weapons against drug-resistant superbugs. Bassler teaches molecular biology at Princeton, where she continues her years-long study of V. harveyi, one such social microbe that ...
MacArthur is funding 20 studies to evaluate the effectiveness of social programs, including Foundations of Learning, an intervention to help pre-schoolers become better students. Learn more at www.macfound.org/socialbenefits. ... macarthur foundation philanthropy policy research development social pre-school kids children head start poverty
Excerpt
...surgeon general, President Barack Obama announced at a Rose Garden ceremony this morning. Benjamin won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 2008 for her work founding the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic to serve a Gulf Coast fishing community of 2,500...
Source Info
Reuters Health: eLine
Related Topics
http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2009/07/13/eline/links/20090713elin016.html
Excerpt
...at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine. Awards: Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights; MacArthur "genius grant" winner; Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice from Pope Benedict XVI, the highest award given to the laity by the pope for distinguished...
Source Info
USA Today
Related Topics
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-13-obama-surgeon-general_N.htm?csp=34
Excerpt
...Garden. Her appointment must be confirmed by the Senate.Last fall, Dr. Benjamin received a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" to spend as she chooses. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation described her as "a rural family physician forging...
Source Info
Wall Street Journal
Related Topics
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124749440449132729.html#mod=WSJ_topics_obama
Excerpt
...of possibility." Richeson said she was as surprised to get into graduate school at Harvard as she was to receive her MacArthur "genius grant." It's not that Richeson questions her abilities. It's that she clearly remembers the little girl who didn't see herself...
Source Info
Chicago Tribune
Related Topics
http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~r/chicagotribune/trice/~3/sxynhglaE1E/chi-trice-06-jul06,0,526919.column
Dave Hickey is a distinguished Professor of English at UNLV and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the so-called "genius grant." His work has been featured in numerous major American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair. He is perhaps one of the best known American art and cultural critics today. ... Dave Hickey fine arts writing
"I had professors who were international in their outlook," says Corey Harris '91, D.Mus. '07, winner of a 2007 MacArthur Foundation genius grant. "That had an impact on me." As a learning associate on campus in late February, Harris returned the favor to Bates faculty and students. ... none
Playwright, actor, and author Anna Deavere Smith uses her singular brand of theater to explore issues of race, community and character in America. In 1996, she was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (known as a "genius" grant) for creating a new form of theater — a blend of theatrical art, social commentary, journalism and intimate reverie. ... none
Emperor Akbar. Between Khansahib and his father, Baba Allauddin Khan, it spans over one hundred years of musical compositions and concerts. It is by far the largest single collection of Indian classical music. The collection emphasizes the teaching of the music as well as concerts. The teaching is the future of Indian classical music, and Khansahib has taken great care to make sure it survives by teaching 4-6 classes weekly, nine months of the year for the past forty years. His daily ...
Excerpt
...been working on." The MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent Chicago-based group that hands out about $260 million in grants annually. It's known for its so-called "genius grants," $500,000 no-strings-attached fellowships that have gone to hundreds...
Source Info
Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1021228.html
Andrea Ghez, winner of a MacArthur genius grant and UCLA Astronomy Professor, researches super-massive black holes. She talks about how UCLA is the place for her in her profession and field of study: Working at UCLA gives her access to the Keck telescope, the largest in the world. ... ucla uclachannel professor astronomy macarthur research keck telescope
MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton talks with Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia.
Excerpt
...ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. Dead Man's Cell Phone is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront...
Source Info
Broadway World
Related Topics
http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=48801
Excerpt
...in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology at the age of 20 . As a result he was awarded a Macarthur genius grant in 1981, and later generated a mixture of applause and opprobrium with his famous book, A New Kind of Science. In it,...
Source Info
Guardian Unlimited
Related Topics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/09/search-engine-google
Excerpt
...Majora Carter's environmental activism has won her a MacArthur Genius Grant. (James Burling Chase) Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this audio onto your web page. Audio player code: An environmental justice advocate from the South Bronx confronts "environmental...
Source Info
NPR
Related Topics
http://feeds.mpr.org/~r/MPR_NewsFeatures/~3/yzjoSWngdSM/
James Randi is an internationally known magician (as The Amazing Randi), psychic debunker, and winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." He was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is perhaps best known for offering $1000000 (via the James Randi Educational Foundation) to anyone who can successfully demonstrate psychic powers under conditions mutually agreed on by the challenger and himself. Starting with a $10000 ...
James Randi is an internationally known magician (as The Amazing Randi), psychic debunker, and winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." He was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is perhaps best known for offering $1000000 (via the James Randi Educational Foundation) to anyone who can successfully demonstrate psychic powers under conditions mutually agreed on by the challenger and himself. Starting with a ...
James Randi is an internationally known magician (as The Amazing Randi), psychic debunker, and winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." He was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is perhaps best known for offering $1000000 (via the James Randi Educational Foundation) to anyone who can successfully demonstrate psychic powers under conditions mutually agreed on by the challenger and himself. Starting with a $10000 ...
James Randi is an internationally known magician (as The Amazing Randi), psychic debunker, and winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." He was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is perhaps best known for offering $1000000 (via the James Randi Educational Foundation) to anyone who can successfully demonstrate psychic powers under conditions mutually agreed on by the challenger and himself. Starting with a $10000 ...
James Randi is an internationally known magician (as The Amazing Randi), psychic debunker, and winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." He was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is perhaps best known for offering $1000000 (via the James Randi Educational Foundation) to anyone who can successfully demonstrate psychic powers under conditions mutually agreed on by the challenger and himself. Starting with a $10000 ...
James Randi is an internationally known magician (as The Amazing Randi), psychic debunker, and winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." He was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is perhaps best known for offering $1000000 (via the James Randi Educational Foundation) to anyone who can successfully demonstrate psychic powers under conditions mutually agreed on by the challenger and himself. Starting with a $10000 ...
James Randi is an internationally known magician (as The Amazing Randi), psychic debunker, and winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." He was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is perhaps best known for offering $1000000 (via the James Randi Educational Foundation) to anyone who can successfully demonstrate psychic powers under conditions mutually agreed on by the challenger and himself. Starting with a $10000 ...
James Randi is an internationally known magician (as The Amazing Randi), psychic debunker, and winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." He was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is perhaps best known for offering $1000000 (via the James Randi Educational Foundation) to anyone who can successfully demonstrate psychic powers under conditions mutually agreed on by the challenger and himself. Starting with a $10000 ...
was that the vision, the potential, the meaning he sensed in the music was beyond his abilities as a musician, as astonishing as those abilities were. He struggled, every time he picked up his saxophone, to deepen his vision, strengthen his technique, and lengthen the reach of his talent. The act of playing his horn became a desperate search for the elusive music he could hear only in his heart. After months of struggling and failing, Parkers search was finally rewarded. As the story goes, ...
Mary Zimmermans stunning theatrical event is a series of stories brilliantly woven by the beautiful princess Scheherezade to save her own life. As long as she can keep the king entertained with her magical stories of beauty, honor, love, and the search for wisdom, he will spare her. With Zimmermans famed fusion of gorgeous music, inventive staging, and highly theatrical storytelling, "The Arabian Nights" gives us an exhilarating view of the lush, rich legacy of the place we now know as Iraq ...
A native of Charleston and a descendant of the Gullah community has been chosen to receive one of the most prestigious prizes in America. Mary Jackson, a resident of Johns Island who grew up in Mt. Pleasant, is one of 25 winners of the MacArthur Foundations annual genius grant, a fellowship given to creative individuals distinguished by their efforts to push the boundaries of their respective fields.
Food Fight: A Film by Chris Taylor. Revolution never tasted so good! FOOD FIGHT is a fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement has created a counter-revolution against big agribusiness. This clip features Will Allen, McArthur Genius Grant Winner 2008.
The International Criminal Court is the cornerstone of a strong international justice system. As an early supporter of the civil society groups that advocated for the ICC, the MacArthur Foundation funded a variety of activities leading up to the completion of the Rome Treaty, which created the Court. It continues to fund efforts to ensure the Courts first cases are successful. For more information about MacArthurs support for a strong international justice system, visit www.macfound.org/human_rights.
In this short video, several MacArthur Fellows discuss the award, which the MacArthur Foundation grants each year to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. Learn more at www.macfound.org/fellows.
Update Sources