Here are this year’s MacArthur fellows and ‘genius grant’ recipients
The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced the 25 recipients, who will each receive $625,000.
Wastewater is the infrastructure crisis ‘people don’t want to talk about’
2020 MacArthur Fellow Catherine Coleman Flowers spoke to the PBS NewsHour about her vision for a future that centers and solves water infrastructure issues across communities.
Why MacArthur ‘genius’ Viet Thanh Nguyen says writers should make people uncomfortable
Nguyen was chosen for his writing "challenging popular depictions of the Vietnam War and exploring the myriad ways that war lives on," the foundation said.
Why MacArthur ‘genius’ Kate Orff says designing for nature can protect our cities
Twenty-five years ago, Kate Orff didn’t know what landscape architecture was. Today, her approach to promoting the environment in urban design earned her a 2017 MacArthur “Genius” grant.
How does someone become a so-called “genius”? We reached out to a few of them to ask about their “secret sauce.”…
Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt described herself as a "glass-half-empty kind of girl" in one of her poems -- but she's optimistic about the future of poetry.
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, Lin-Manuel Miranda is one of 24 new recipients of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships, also known as “genius grants.” The composer/playwright/performer explains what it’s like to fall in…
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