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MacArthur Fellowship
The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens or residents, of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise...
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My Hang V. Huynh
My Hang V. Huynh (born 1962) is a chemist in the High Explosives Science and Technology Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Huynh's research has led to the creation of "Green Primary Explosives" which are "designed to replace traditional...
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Corey Harris
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Claire Kremen
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Dawn Upshaw
Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a world-renowned American soprano described as "one of the most consequential performers of our time" by the Los Angeles Times. The recipient of several Grammy Awards and Edison Prize...
Mercedes Doretti
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Cheryl Hayashi
Cheryl Hayashi is a biologist at UC Riverside who specializes in the genetic structure of spider silk. A professor at UC Riverside since 2001, she received her Ph.D from Yale University in 1996. She was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellow in 2007.
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Shen Wei
Shen Wei is a renowned Chinese choreographer, director, dancer, painter and designer. Shen Wei is recognized for his vision of an intercultural, interdisciplinary, original mode of movement-based performance, and his innovative blend of traditional...
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Yoky Matsuoka
Yoky Matsuoka (born c. 1972) is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (U.W.), director of that university's Neurobotics Laboratory, and a 2007 MacArthur Fellow. Her research combines neuroscience...
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Jonathan Shay
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Michael Elowitz
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Peter Cole
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Joan Snyder
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Whitfield Lovell
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Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek (born 1942) is an American writer.
Dybek was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dybek graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959. He writes...
Sven Haakanson
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Saul Griffith
Saul Griffith is an inventor. He is most well known for his inexpensive technique for making prescription eyeglasses. This method uses two flexible surfaces and a pourable resin. The project is touted as becoming one of the leading solutions for...
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Paul W. K. Rothemund
Paul W.K. Rothemund is a senior research fellow at the Computation and Neural Systems department at Caltech. He has become known in the fields of DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology for his pioneering work with DNA origami. Rothemund is a 2007...
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Lisa Cooper
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Marc Edwards
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Mark Roth
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Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage (born 1964) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning playwright whose work often deals with the lives of African Americans and women. She was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She received...
Ruth DeFries
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Jay Rubenstein
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Deborah Bial
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Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl (born 1974) is an American playwright. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
Ruhl was born in Wilmette, Illinois. She studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University (A.B., 1997; M.F.A., 2001) and did graduate work at Pembroke...
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John Rich
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Kenneth C. Catania
Kenneth C. Catania (born 1965) is a neurobiologist. Catania is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University, where he studies star-nosed moles and naked mole rats. In 1989, Catania received a BS in zoology from the...
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George Saunders
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories and essays. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and GQ, among others. He also contributes a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend...
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Jennifer Richeson
Jennifer A. Richeson is an African-American social psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions.
Dr. Richeson completed a B.S. in psychology at Brown University and earned her Ph.D. in social psychology at Harvard University...
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Claire J. Tomlin
Claire Jennifer Tomlin (b. Southampton, England 1969) is an American researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory.
Tomlin received her B.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo in 1992. She then attended...
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Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn (born in 1979 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research includes CAPTCHAs and human computation, and has earned him international recognition...
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Lisa Curran
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Regina Carter
Regina Carter (born August 6, 1966, Detroit, Michigan) is an American jazz violinist. Carter began as a classical violinist, but became interested in jazz , and is considered one of the finest violinists in the genre. She is the cousin of famous...
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Anna Schuleit
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Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao FRS (Chinese: 陶哲軒, Simplified Chinese: 陶哲轩) (born July 17, 1975, Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number...
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Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is also an associate...
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James Fruchterman
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Kevin Eggan
Kevin Eggan (born 1974 in Normal, Illinois) is Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, known for his work in stem cell research (also known as "therapeutic cloning"), and as a spokesperson for cell research in...
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Josiah McElheny
Josiah G. McElheny (born in 1966 in Boston) is a contemporary artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects (see glass art). He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows...
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David Carroll
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David Macaulay
David Macaulay (born December 2, 1946) is an author and illustrator. Now a resident of Norwich, Vermont, United States, he is an alumnus and faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design.
David Macaulay is also a board member of the National...
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Matias Zaldarriaga
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Edith Widder
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D. Holmes Morton
D. Holmes Morton is an American physician specializing in genetic disorders of Old Order Amish and Mennonite children. In 1989 he established the Clinic for Special Children in Strasburg, Pennsylvania to focus on these diseases.
Morton is a former...
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John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or...
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Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander (born 1969 in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistan-born American artist who specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting. She has also created murals, installations, mixed-media works and performance art. She is a 2006 recipient...
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Linda Griffith
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Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is an American journalist whose works focus on the marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc.
LeBlanc grew up in a working class family in Leominster, Massachusetts. She...
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Victoria Hale
Dr. Victoria Hale founded The Institute for OneWorld Health in San Francisco, California in 2000. Dr. Hale earned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in...
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Nicole King
Nicole King is a MacArthur Fellow (2005) and faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley in molecular and cell biology and integrative biology.
King studies the evolution of multicellularity, and her work on choanoflagellates has...
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Lu Chen
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Emily Thompson
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Olufunmilayo Olopade
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Jon Kleinberg
Jon Michael Kleinberg (born October 1971) is an American computer scientist, MacArthur Fellow, Nevanlinna Prize winner, and the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Jon Kleinberg was born in 1971 in Boston,...
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Teresita Fernandez
Teresita Fernández (born Miami, 1968) is a contemporary sculptor and artist based in New York. A recipient of the 2005 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Fellowship", Fernández's work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of...
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Pehr Harbury
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Steven Goodman
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Michael Manga
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Todd Martinez
Todd J. Martínez is a David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and a Professor of Photon Science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He received his B.S. from Calvin College in 1989 and...
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